Josh Warrington Eyes Trilogy Fight With Mauricio Lara: ‘Let’s Get It On’

Josh Warrington is hopeful for a trilogy match with Mauricio Lara.

Warrington and Lara fought back-to-back fights in February and September 2021 with Lara winning by TKO and then the two had a draw in the rematch. Since then, talks of the trilogy have been there but after Lara scored a TKO win over Leigh Wood the two will have to rematch, but after that, Warrington is hopeful the trilogy is next.

“There seems to be personal animosity between us now,” Warrington said to the Yorkshire Evening Post. “I knew he’d been stringing it along for some time, since the second fight, that it’s personal between me and him and it never has been for me, it’s been healthy competition even though there’s pushing and shoving at weigh-ins, it’s never been personal. But now it is for me.

“The way he conducted himself a few weeks back. I was sat as a guest, working punditry on DAZN but I was at the side of the ring, so for him to behave like that, spitting is one of the most degrading acts you can do to somebody,” Warrington continued. “I’d rather have been punched, honestly. It’s disgusting as well. Look, if he’d done that a few years ago with the COVID situation, do you know what I mean? If I’d done it, what would have been my consequences? Listen, he’s been saying for a while he wants to retire me. Here I am. I’m there, let’s get it on.”

Since the back-to-back fights, Josh Warrington TKO’d Kiko Martinez and then lost to Luis Alberto Lopez by a majority decision. Mauricio Lara, meanwhile, scored three straight stoppage wins over Emilio Sanchez, Jose Sanmartin, and Wood.

As of right now, however, there is no word on whether or not the trilogy will happen in 2023, but Warrington is vocal about wanting it.

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