{"id":4751,"date":"2024-09-18T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/anto-cacace-v-josh-warrington-belfast-fighter-says-favourite-means-nothing\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:43:23","slug":"anto-cacace-v-josh-warrington-belfast-fighter-says-favourite-means-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/anto-cacace-v-josh-warrington-belfast-fighter-says-favourite-means-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Anto Cacace v Josh Warrington: Belfast fighter says &#8216;favourite means nothing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warrington, a former world champion at featherweight, is coming into Saturday&#8217;s fight after two defeats and has not fought since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old from Leeds famously beat Carl Frampton in December 2018 to retain his world featherweight title &#8211; something Cacace is looking to make amends for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cHe\u2019s had fights with the likes of [Carl] Frampton, [Lee] Selby and all these big fighters in the past,&#8221; Cacace said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would like to get my revenge for a couple of the Irish fighters and on Saturday night I plan on doing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Warrington, who is making his debut at 130lb, can not win the IBF super-featherweight title on Saturday, victory would see him become a relevant and active fighter in what is a bustling division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI think throughout my career the chips have always been stacked against me for whatever reason, but when my back is against the wall it seems to bring the best out in me,&#8221; Warrington said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We\u2019ve been respectful throughout the build-up. I\u2019ve got a lot of respect for Anto and his team have been very good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We\u2019re going to prove that you don\u2019t need to trash talk. It\u2019s all about letting the fists do the talking and I think we\u2019re both going to deliver on Saturday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5y35xg07p9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warrington, a former world champion at featherweight, is coming into Saturday&#8217;s fight after two defeats and has not fought since October 2023. The 33-year-old from Leeds famously beat Carl Frampton in December 2018 to retain his world featherweight title &#8211; something Cacace is looking to make amends for. \u201cHe\u2019s had fights with the likes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","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=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}