Josh Warrington sends message to old rival Kid Galahad after IBF title win

Josh Warrington has hit back at Kid Galahad and accused the new IBF featherweight champion of playing games in their escalating war of words.

After Warrington vacated at the start of the year, Galahad secured the IBF strap with a win over Jazza Dickens in August, his second shot at the title having fallen just short against the Leeds fighter in 2019.

Galahad suffered a split decision defeat in that contest and while tensions have remained high between the two since, he extended an olive branch following Warrington’s shock defeat to Mauricio Lara in February, wishing his old rival a speedy recovery.

Warrington hopes to avenge the only defeat of his professional career in a rematch against the hard-hitting Mexican on 4 September.

But his opinion of Galahad has not changed in 2021 after the Sheffield fighter remarked he would leave the winner of Warrington vs Lara II leaving on a stretcher in a recent interview with IFL TV.

‘The kid’s metamorphic, he doesn’t just have a dual personality, I think he has four or five different personalities,’ Warrington said.

‘You saw him after the last fight a few weeks back against Jazza and he couldn’t help mention my name then.

‘So, I don’t know. I don’t even know who the real Kid is anymore with all this s**t he spouts on social media.

‘I know he’s only playing the game, but I don’t play f*****g games. I’m a serious guy. With me, what you see is what you get.

‘With him, he has so many different personalities. After a fight he’s ‘cheers mate, you did the business, good fight’ and people say he’s surprised us.

‘Then it’s ‘I’m going to put him on a stretcher if I fight him again’. Come on!

‘I’m not buying all that s**t he’s putting on Twitter.

‘If he genuinely meant it or not, I don’t know. If I saw it in his face, it would be different.

‘The clown wants to get some recognition and he hasn’t got any.’

Warrington decided to vacate his belt after the IBF refused to sanction a unification bout with then-WBA champion Xu Can with the organisation instead pushing for him to defend against mandatory challenger Galahad.

Warrington had hoped that decision would bring bigger and better things only for Lara’s shock victory in London to derail his and Eddie Hearn’s plans.

The Leeds fighter insists there is no bitterness in seeing his ole foe now wearing the belt around his waist, insisting his goals remain bigger than than holding one championship.

‘It was my decision to vacate the belt, so I always knew when he won that final eliminator that he would fight for it eventually and there was a possibility he could win it again,’ Warrington said.

‘It didn’t bother me. In my mind I was going to be Ring magazine champion and that looks over all the governing bodies. The world title is not dominated by the IBF.

‘I had a few defences of it and I’ve got a fancy ring over there on my sideboard, which you get awarded when you have three defences of it.

‘Congratulations to him, but that’s it really.’

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