Josh Warrington (31-1-1, 8 KOs) defends his IBF featherweight title against mandatory challenger Luis Alberto Lopez (26-2, 15 KOs) at the First Direct Arena in Leeds.
Overall, the stats suggest that Lopez has a massive power advantage over Warrington, boosting at 58% knock-out percentage over Warrington's 26%, but Warrington has a height advantage of 3 inches over Lopez. Both of them fight out of an orthodox stance.
Warrington is the more experienced professional fighter, having had 5 more fights, and made his debut in 2009, 6 years earlier than Lopez, whose first professional fight was in 2015. He has fought 103 more professional rounds, 249 to Lopez's 146.
Warrington's last 5 fights have come over a period of 3 years, 5 months, and 9 days, meaning he has been fighting on average every 8 months and 8 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 31 rounds, meaning that they lasted 6.2 rounds on average. In his last fight, he beat Kiko Martinez on 26th March 2022 by technical knockout in the 7th round in their IBF World Featherweight championship fight at First Direct Arena, Leeds, United Kingdom.
At the same time, Lopez's last 4 fights have come over a period of 3 years, 6 months, and 14 days, meaning he has been fighting on average every 10 months and 19 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 37 rounds, meaning that they lasted 9.3 rounds on average.
Fight card:
▪️Josh Warrington vs. Luis Alberto Lopez, 10 rounds, for IBF World Featherweight Title ▪️Ebanie Bridges vs. Shannon O'Connell, 10 rounds, for IBF World Female Bantamweight Title ▪️Felix Cash vs. Celso Neves, 6 rounds, middleweights
Before the Bell:
▪️James Metcalf vs. Courtney Pennington, 10 rounds, for WBA Continental super welterweight title ▪️Hopey Price vs. Jonathan Santana, 8 rounds, junior featherweights ▪️Shannon Courtenay vs. Gemma Ruegg, 6 rounds, women's bantamweights ▪️Rhiannon Dixon vs. Kristine Shergold, 6 rounds, women's lightweights ▪️Cory O'Regan vs. Antonio Rodriguez, 4 rounds, junior welterweights ▪️Junaid Bostan vs. Athanasios Glynos, 4 rounds, super welterweight ▪️Koby McNamara vs. Nabil Ahmed, 4 rounds, bantamweight
