Round-by-Round: Kiko Martinez vs. Josh Warrington II - 26 March 2022

[THEBUTCH]

Overall a great performance from Warrington.

The win was tinged with fouls committed by Josh and the referee did warn him, but should have been stricter.

Kiko is not an angel though and committed fouls too, just not as many.

I couldn't fail to be impressed by Warrington taking the contest by the scruff of the neck and delivering a very high energy performance and those punches carry a lot more power than his stoppage ratio would you believe.

He's back and back big time !

[Counter-puncher]

fck me are you moonlighting on here taking time out from your job on DAZN?

that's the koolest kool aid I have seen being guzzled since 45 seconds into the Lara rematch the entire DAZN team told us confidently Josh was a 'totally different fighter tonight'

[KiwiRider]

fck me are you moonlighting on here taking time out from your job on DAZN?

that's the koolest kool aid I have seen being guzzled since 45 seconds into the Lara rematch the entire DAZN team told us confidently Josh was a 'totally different fighter tonight'

That was pretty funny.

[Counter-puncher]

fck me are you moonlighting on here taking time out from your job on DAZN?

that's the koolest kool aid I have seen being guzzled since 45 seconds into the Lara rematch the entire DAZN team told us confidently Josh was a 'totally different fighter tonight'

That was pretty funny.

it may not even have been as long as 45 seconds. it was absolutely- well, I was going to use the word 'bizarre' but what's bizarre about a tv channel blowing smoke up their fighters' arse?- it was glaring.

[BigDoofus]

He's back and back big time !

He's back in hospital.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Kiko has been told by his handlers to retire. He has obviously over-achieved in his career.

Well deserved win though, any stoppage win is well deserved, the one he got against Kid.

[dookus]

Josh ‘Butt’ Warrington

Josh "War" Buttington

[gregregegg]

Kiko has been told by his handlers to retire. He has obviously over-achieved in his career.

Well deserved win though, any stoppage win is well deserved, the one he got against Kid.

I disagree. If he can secure real fights he has plenty left. Warringtons domminance was off the back of some horrific headbuts and fighting blind...

Then at the end Kiko landed a peach befor Josh panic flurried... I dont hate the stoppage, he went too long without answering back, But he was OK, and if the ref let it go and he was still standing 15 seconds later, id have Kiko as favorite. Warrington was punching himself out with reckless work. had kiko been allowed to survive the flurry he would of been punching at a gassed warrington, with a broken jaw, and a brkoken hand.... Could of got very ugly for josh over the next few mins.

[THEBUTCH]

That's a guess. You could end up waiting a long time for Warrington to run out of steam, especially if he's having things all his own way.

[margaret thatcher]

ya, lara really dug his head into josh. crouched down under him and rammed him hard with it. bad lara.

funny how josh didnt actually bother throwing a punch, just wades in crouching super low and head down. why not post the actual lara-warrington 2 fight instead of lara vs some other guy?

dudes can moan about people being too hard on him, but as said, cutting 2 opponents back to back (coincidentally both since coming back from a loss - new strategy?), in a total of a round and a half, is quite something. i have been a fan of josh's and have the posts to prove it, none of this 'josh just cant win' stuff. i think josh is a warrior, but i simply dont like constant dirty fighting from any fighter

Lara put his head down the same time as Josh



As if any boxer and his coaches come up with a strategy of headbutting opponents

with lopez being sliced open, that's 3 fights in a row now that billy goat josh has cut his opponent within 2 rounds via headbutts. what an absolute fluke of chance that these headbutts keep happening, almost immediately, to a clean fighter like josh, and not once does he get cut himself.

[margaret thatcher]

Can't believe some of the Warrington slander on here post fight

Agreed. He can’t do right for doing wrong with some

ya i wonder why anyone would have problems with the way he fights

incidentally, the father of the kameda bros got banned for years (or permanently?) in japan for telling the one son to foul - josh's dad was caught on video doing the exact same in the lopez fight (how about that strategizing digzee?). josh is a warrior, but also a filthy dirty fighter and with a trainer urging it on, the loss to lara has brought out a different side. i guess they feel he needs some cheating to get him over the edge

[Ruthless-RKO]

this is his explanation

“I still have a bump on my head from a clash from the head clash early on and when I hit him on the hip when he turned, he made a meal of it,” Warrington said.

“His trainer has came up after and said I am a dirty fighter. I made the point of him constantly holding. But all blame was attached to me. He was very wild with his movement.

“I go forward with my chin tucked down, it’s part of my defence, things like that happen with certain styles. I am fortunate in that I don’t get cut that much but I had a lump on my head. I saw Ricky Hatton used to be in clinches and get cut a lot.”