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BOTH known for their frequent Binvolvement with the unexpected, perhaps the only predictable thing about featherweights Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington in recent years was that they would one day meet in the ring, which is precisely what they’ll do on Saturday (October 7) in Sheffield.
There is and always has been a feeling that they belong together, these two. Whether that’s due to their styles, which will surely blend well, or their personalities, which are both no-nonsense and direct, you just forever had a sense that their paths, regardless of whoever else emerged along them, would ultimately lead here. It is rather refreshing, too, that both are intent on fighting one another, if only because in the past we have often seen high-achieving British boxers inhabit the same weight class yet do all they can to avoid one another, seemingly of the view that it is preferable to jump
