Josh Warrington Retains His Title

Josh Warrington Retains His Title

It wasn’t the fight we wanted, there was far too much holding, their styles didn’t gel, and certainly Josh Warrington will be a very relieved man to get that fight out of the way, and retain his IBF featherweight title for the second time.

A lot of the early rounds were close, Kid Galahad got off to a decent start, but for me Warrington saved his title in the last 4 rounds.

The Leeds crowd were silent for much of the fight, and I wondered if they were doing the judges job for them, removing any doubt that there might have been.

Warrington didn’t get off to the rampaging marauding start that he did against Lee Selby and Carl Frampton, Galahad looked to be one imposing his style on the fight, setting the pace that he needed.

It wasn’t pretty and despite a decision that could have gone either way, there will be no demand to run it back.

Galahad started to slow in the final third of the contest, and that for me swung the fight in favour of the champion.

The judges scored it 116-112, 116-113, 113-115 for Warrington which was an accurate reflection of the fight.

Warrington lives to fight another day and his unification ambitions remain alive. Galahad despite a brave effort will struggle to get the big fights again. The Sheffield fighter isn’t pretty on the eye and will find himself in the who needs him club.

The fight promised much, but sadly it will quickly be forgotten.

Warrington improves to 29-0, Galahad drops to 26-1.