{"id":10406,"date":"2022-04-29T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:32:52","slug":"josh-warrington-wants-wayne-rooney-for-a-ring-walk-despite-joking-itll-risk-the-wrath-of-his-beloved-leeds-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10406","title":{"rendered":"Josh Warrington wants Wayne Rooney for a ring walk \u2013 despite joking it\u2019ll risk the wrath of his beloved Leeds faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOSH WARRINGTON likes the idea of Wayne Rooney leading him into a fight.<\/p>\n<p>But he joked his fellow Leeds fans will never accept him doing a ring-walk with a Manchester United icon.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds native Warrington&#x27;s open to Man United legend Rooney walking him to the ring. <\/p>\n<p>Former IBF featherweight champion Warrington and Derby boss Rooney struck up a friendship in October after a Liverpool Arena show \u2014 based on their shared loves of both boxing and rugby league.<\/p>\n<p>But the vicious rivalry between Elland Road and Old Trafford fans means that England legend Roo will unfortunately never truly be welcome up the M62.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Saturday\u2019s rematch with current IBF 9st champ Kiko Martinez at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, Warrington grinned: \u201cI met Wayne at a show and we had a photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did get a few Leeds fans message me \u2014 asking what I was doing hanging around with a sc*mer! <\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='' title=''><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he is a real boxing man and he approached me and started talking about Leeds Rhinos, he is a proper rugby league fan too. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were both going back to the same hotel and he said he wanted to walk with me. I thought, &#x27;fxxxing hell, all right then\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I still look at him as a great England player \u2014 but always a sc*mer. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSH WARRINGTON likes the idea of Wayne Rooney leading him into a fight. But he joked his fellow Leeds fans will never accept him doing a ring-walk with a Manchester United icon. Leeds native Warrington&#x27;s open to Man United legend Rooney walking him to the ring. Former IBF featherweight champion Warrington and Derby boss Rooney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}