Josh Warrington has vowed to exact revenge over Mauricio Lara and put his nightmare year behind him.
The Leeds Warrior suffered a shock defeat to a relatively unknown opponent in February but will welcome the Mexican to Leeds in front of 20,000 fans for their second meeting this weekend.
And Warrington is confident he can put his career back on track and return his focus to the marque names in the featherweight division.
"Every next fight is your biggest fight, but the way that this one has been built it is one of the biggest fights to happen since the pandemic," he said.
"But going back to the fight I am treating it like it is a massive fight and shot at revenge on a huge night, and is not just a shot at Mauricio Lara who to be honest is now a massive name in this division.
"In my head and in my life, I need to do the business and I am hoping to put a picture up of me and Mauricio providing it all goes well on Saturday night.
"In the case of Lara the case is, get it done and go home and then move on to other things if the time is right.
Lara came in with very little to lose last time out, and shocked the world handing Warrington his first defeat on the night.
And the 23-year-old has promised to meet Warrington with the same outcome, and currently feels like "a champion without a crown".
Warrington said that I got lucky," said Lara. "Believe me. There’s no luck in boxing.
"I’ve never won anything with luck. I won with hard work and a lot of discipline. Of course, since I beat him I feel I’m the champion.
"Like they say in my town, I’m a champion without a crown. It sounds nice and I think I’ve earned it with hard work. I want to be number one in the world and I’m going to achieve that.
"I’m a very humble person. He won my respect in the first fight because he was number one in the world, but that’s no longer the case. He doesn’t respect me and he has said many things about my dad. He made a mistake, believe me. He met a friendly version of me and look what happened.
Ricky Hatton believes that Warrington "has to win the fight" in a make-or-break outing for the Leeds native, who could face being out of the top ten featherweight rankings with a second consecutive defeat to the Mexican on Saturday night.
British welterweight Conor Benn also features on the undercard in a big examination of his credentials against previously scheduled opponent Adrian Granados, after admitting the cancellation of his last fight was "devastating".
