Veteran Josh Warrington preparing for one last charge
Mar 5, 2025 • 3:00 AM ET
Leeds warrior Josh Warrington might have one last high-level roll of the dice left.
The veteran Yorkshireman and former IBF featherweight champion, now 34, is 31-4-1 (8 KOs) but has lost his last three, to Luis Lopez, Leigh Wood and Anthony Cacace.
Wood and Cacace fight in May and the former had long been in Warrington’s sights.
“We are talking to Josh about a couple of big fights in the summer,” said his promoter Eddie Hearn. “It’s whether he has a run out. What are you looking up for him, big-wise? What’s interesting? I mean, is there a world title shot? You know, there was a mention the other day of Mick Conlan.”
Conlan boxes in Brighton on Friday, and he and Warrington – who has boxed just once a year for three years – both have significant volumes of support.
“If he [Conlan] comes through his fight, you know, two big fan bases could be interesting,” Hearn said. “I mean, like, last chance saloon. We acknowledge this is going to be Josh’s last year in boxing.
“I think he came off the Cacace fight. It feels like the inactivity killed him a little bit in that fight and wants to go again.”
Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.
