In a recent interview, IBF featherweight champion Josh Warrington was very critical of mandatory challenger Kid Galahad.
He explained that he didn't like the attitude of Galahad and called him a "disgrace to the sport" for failing a drug test in past.
Warrington's promoter, Frank Warren, won a recent purse bid to secure the promotional rights for the contest.
Warren plans to stage the contest in the coming months, in Warrington's backyard of Leeds.
“He is a very emotional person and his dad is a very emotional person,” Galahad told Behind The Gloves. “I can see his dad chucking in the towel. “He is going to try to bring it when we get in there and I am going to beat him up very badly. And I think between the sixth or seventh round his dad will chuck the towel in."
Warrington does not believe Galahad has done enough to earn the world title shot, and he believes the undefeated challenger is not on his level.
He would have rather faced WBO champion Oscar Valdez in a unification, but the IBF ordered Warrington to face Galahad.
“When we get in there you will see. I’ve more than earned my stripes. We’ll have to wait and see. When we get in there I will show him there are levels. They can believe what they want to believe. And if he doesn’t like me, he doesn’t like me. It's a fight they didn’t want,” Galahad said.
“The good thing is the IBF stick to the rules and regulations, They’re probably the strictest of the governing bodies. You have to fight the mandatory. He was in a position where he had to fight me. I’ve been training for this moment for all my life, I won’t be denied. If I had to fight in his dad’s living room, with his dad as a judge and his brother as a judge, I’d do it and make sure I win.”
