"Josh Warrington's soul is in my back pocket"

Well summed up pal, pretty much my exact take on it.

also liked for use of ‘spangled’ which I will endeavour to incorporate to my every day lexicon. Cheers

 

Huh? Don't get ye.! A high profile fight up in weight, why do that when there was a high profile fight in his weight division. He chose a high profile international fight for a higher regarded belt (ring) over a domestic grabfest where his opponent doesn't want to engage. Come on mate, it seems that people's dislike for Warrington is clouding there judgement.
One question, which would u of done? Take into consideration your in the entertainment business, you've taken years of crafting to come up with a style that's t.v and fan friendly. You get a opponent who choses half way through a fight to hold and make the fight boring for the paying public. You get a choice to fight him again when probably 90% of people are saying they don't want to watch it again. Or you get an option to fight an international fight against an opponent who will come and give it a go for a belt (ring) which is held in higher esteem than the belt you are dropping. Plz answer, which would u do?

 

The Lara fight was with nothing on the line, and had very little buzz as no one had heard of him. The choice of defending the belt or vacating to fight a nobody just seemed poor guidance at the time. And even worse after.

I quite like Josh tbf, but I though it was mad to vacate the belt. Especially when 5hey are normally such a big bargaining chip

 

. He didn't vacate to fight lara. He vacated to fight xu, lara was a keep busy fight which did go horribly wrong.

 

Why wouldn't you have kept the belt, and fought Galahad instead though?;

 

It was originally for a title fight. Lara magically appeared in the IBF top 15 despite being ranked the 11th best featherweight in Mexico alone at the time, then Warrington decided to drop the belt.

Feel for Lara really, should be a world champ now, but instead he has to win twice on a Rematchroom show to be able to progress with his career and still won't even have a belt.

 

Like I said above, keeping the belt and fighting galahad (again) is one option.
The other option was to relinquish the belt and fight Xu for the wba regular (a lesser belt and not worth it, on its own imo) so let's completely disregard the wba regular and throw that in the bin
And also the ring magazine belt which is held in higher esteem than the ibf and is the better option of the two.
Its as simple as he chose to fight for the ring belt instead of the ibf.
At that point in time that was his options, lara was just a keep busy fight and should not be taken into consideration.

 

There's no excuses really for Warrington. Galahad was with the same promoter and lived 30 miles down the road.

It's like Errol Spence vacating his IBF belt to fight Jamal James for the WBA regular. There's literally no way you can spin it.

 

Lara was a voluntary defence. He vacated after.

 

Last one I can think of was Pacquiao v Hatton.

 

So u trying to tell me that one of the governing body's belts are held in higher esteem than the ring magazine belt?

 

No, he vacated before. There was no belt for Lara although I know what you're referring to, either way lara was supposed to be a keep busy fight