{"id":1105,"date":"2025-11-14T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:37:12","slug":"wood-vs-warrington-rematch-between-leigh-wood-and-josh-warrington-scheduled-for-february-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"Wood vs Warrington: Rematch between Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington scheduled for February in Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former world champions Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington will meet in a highly anticipated rematch on 21 February at Nottingham Arena.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood claimed a stunning knockout victory over his British featherweight rival in a classic first contest in 2023 that was mired in controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having dominated the WBA title fight until the seventh round, Warrington was floored by a trademark right-left combination from Wood and beat the count before referee Michael Alexander deemed that the Leeds fighter could not continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood, 37, from Nottingham was stopped by Anthony Cacace in his last bout in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Warrington, 34, bounced back from a defeat to the Northern Irishman with a routine win over Asad Asif Khan in April after reversing plans to retire from the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also announced by Matchroom promotions was Josh Kelly&#8217;s world title tilt against IBF light-middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in Newcastle on 31 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly, 31, fights in his maiden world title bout and has been given home advantage against the unbeaten Russian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world champions Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington will meet in a highly anticipated rematch on 21 February at Nottingham Arena. Wood claimed a stunning knockout victory over his British featherweight rival in a classic first contest in 2023 that was mired in controversy. Having dominated the WBA title fight until the seventh round, Warrington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}