Dental Technician boxer wins title fight
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- Published: Monday, 21 October 2019 07:36
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Britain’s Josh Warrington defended his IBF world featherweight title for the third time with an emphatic second-round win over Sofiane Takoucht. Warrington, 28, knocked the Frenchman down twice before the referee stopped the contest after another flurry. After school, Josh started working at Beever Dental Laboratory, which would give him the nickname “The Tooth Fairy.”
Before his fight he was profiled in the Times, with details of his boxing and dental careers: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/josh-warrington-v-sofiane-takoucht-i-dont-want-to-be-remembered-as-a-tosser-02j7wl0nx Josh Warrington who fights to take care of his autistic sister, is a different type of boxer from the brash trash-talkers who litter the sport, says author Rick Broadbent.
Warrington’s route to the top has been unorthodox. A council-estate kid who was bright at school, he was forecast good grades but quit in the sixth form. A teacher told him that he was on course to go to university but he says that he was bored.
He left, “bummed around for a month” and then started working at Beever Dental Laboratory. It would give him the nickname “The Tooth Fairy” and he would be rich if he got paid each time someone told him that he knocks teeth out and then puts them back in.
He went back to the lab this week to see the experts who helped him in his early days. “They were very understanding because I was still working there right up until being European champion. Guys would come in and drop off materials and say, ‘Didn’t I see you on the telly on Saturday?’ I was really intrigued by what the technicians do and I carried on. I went to university and qualified as a technician. There was no money in boxing then. A British title might be £12,000 and then the manager takes 15 per cent, the trainer takes 10 per cent, sparring partners.
“I loved working with different powders, making models, bridges, implants. There was an art to it, it was intricate and I found it therapeutic. It came in handy at times, when a family member would say, ‘Oh I’ve been chewing on a Werther’s and my dentures have broke,’ or for making my own gum shields. That was a bonus.”
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