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LEEDS

MARCH 26

★★★★☆ MAIN EVENT

★★★★☆ UNDERCARD

★★★★★ ATMOSPHERE

IT WAS all or nothing for Josh Warrington, who not only won back his IBF featherweight title from Kiko Martínez, but his spirited final onslaught to force the stoppage may have rescued his career.

There was a price to his victory at a packed First Direct Arena, however. He suffered a broken hand in the third round and a broken jaw in the seventh, from a right hand by Martínez a mere 30 seconds before referee Marcus McDonnell rescued the Spaniard.

So, his declared first post-fight plan of ‘bread and butter pudding, a cheeseburger and a pint’ will have to wait, after he underwent an operation to wire his jaw back together on Sunday morning. Instead of a cheeseburger, he was drinking porridge from a mug.