{"id":22421,"date":"2025-11-14T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/leigh-wood-vsjosh-warrington-rematch-scheduled-for-february-in-nottingham\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:50:13","slug":"leigh-wood-vsjosh-warrington-rematch-scheduled-for-february-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/leigh-wood-vsjosh-warrington-rematch-scheduled-for-february-in-nottingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Wood vsJosh Warrington: Rematch 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/67042702\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">mired in controversy. <\/a><\/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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cev1wxl1x1ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22423,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions\/22423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}