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Trouble erupted in Leeds City Centre after the weigh in.
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Lee Selby's camp have reported Josh Warrington's trainer Nick Manners to boxing's governing body over an alleged racist gesture made during the weigh-in of the two fighters.
The pair took to the scales in Leeds on Friday afternoon ahead of their featherweight contest at Elland Road on Saturday night.
During the weigh-in, Warrington's co-trainer Manners - who fought Welsh boxing legend Joe Calzaghe in 1995 - had two blow up sheep dolls in an attempt to "antagonise" Selby.
And as both boxers left the stage following the weigh-in, Selby and his camp were "physically attacked" as they tried to leave Leeds Civic Hall in their van.
It is understood that the van used by Selby and his camp was punched and kicked, but it has been confirmed that no-one from the Welshman's team - nor the 31-year-old himself - were harmed as a result of the incident.
In a statement, Selby's trainer Jamie Sanigar said: "Licensed BBBoC trainer Nick Manners had two blow up sheep to try and antagonise Lee.
"This is a racist overtone and has been reported to Robert Smith at the BBBoC.
"As we left the weigh-in, the team including Lee were attacked as we tried to leave in the van.
"Lee and all of the team are fine and are ready for Saturday night."
Selby weighed in at 8st 13lbs, one pound heavier than his opponent Warrington ahead of the highly anticipated contest.
The bout will be Selby's fifth defence of the IBF world featherweight title he clinched by beating Russian Evgeny Gradovich in October 2015
The Leeds United v Cardiff City rivalry that will ignite between Lee Selby and Josh Warrington at Elland Road
As avid supporters of Cardiff and Leeds respectively, Selby and Warrington used the football rivalry to help promote this weekend's contest
By Ian Mitchelmore
Friday 18th August 2018
Lee Selby v Josh Warrington preview
Scott Young etched himself into Cardiff City folklore while sending seismic waves through the football pyramid as he lashed home late on to clinch a sensational 2-1 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup more than 16 years ago.
The match at a packed Ninian Park will be remembered for having one of the most hostile atmospheres in the Bluebirds' history.
And while David O'Leary's then Premier League big guns were sent packing by Alan Cork's Division Two side on the pitch, there were several incidents off it that contributed to what has become an intense rivalry between the two sides.
The nature of the beast in football has ensured that David can beat Goliath on his day, as Leeds once again found out when they were stunned by non-league Histon in 2008.
Fast forward the clock a decade.
Neil Warnock's current crop have just taken the Championship by storm as they secured their return to the Premier League after a four year absence while the Whites remain in England's second tier having not been in the top flight since their relegation from it at the end of the 2003-04 campaign.
But the rivalry still remains, the two fixtures between the sides last season will tell you that.
And while Cardiff emerged victorious in both of those meetings - turning on the style to win 3-1 on their home patch in September before stunning a packed Elland Road crowd in a 4-1 triumph in February - Leeds remain as one of the sleeping giants of the Football League.
The Whites' home ground and their glorious achievements of years gone by ensure that even after a truly remarkable collapse shortly after the new millennium, the biggest of big guns cannot take them lightly.
Ask Manchester United.
In January 2010, a Red Devils side including the likes of Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov suffered the same humiliation that Leeds themselves endured in South Wales eight years earlier as Jermaine Beckford's stunning solo effort dumped United out of the cup in-front of more than 70,000 fans at Old Trafford.
The Cardiff-Leeds football rivalry certainly won't be at the forefront of the fans' minds in the upcoming campaign given that the Bluebirds will be plying their trade a division above the Elland Road outfit.
Or to put it more bluntly, it simply won't matter.
But a fierce rivalry that has increasingly bubbled alongside matters on the field in recent years is set to be at fever pitch this weekend.
And you try telling Josh Warrington that the rivalry won't matter on Saturday night as he looks to strip Barry-born star Lee Selby of his IBF world featherweight belt.
The Welshman has already made four successful defences of the title he claimed by beating Russian Evgeny Gradovich in October 2015, and he will once again place it on the line when he locks horns with the younger Warrington on Saturday night.
The difference this time is that Selby will have to do the business in-front of an antagonistic Elland Road crowd, the vast majority of which will be backing the man who bleeds the white of Leeds.
And this isn't an ordinary fight. Make no mistake of that.
Ever since the pair both split from Matchroom Boxing, they have seemingly only had eyes for eachother.
"Over the years he has said I won't get to his level and I'm an average fighter," Warrington said in the pre-fight press conference.
"It will be embarrassing for him to lose his title to an average fighter, won't it?
"I feel this is meant to be. I talk a lot about destiny. A few years ago I was meant to fight for a world title and it didn't come off.
"Anything could have happened in those couple of years but it has come round in a way I have always dreamed and planned. I've always said I'd love to fight for a world title at Elland Road, I always said I'd have the Chief there and now Kaiser Chiefs play too.
"It's all fallen into place. All I have to do now is get in the ring and do the business and Leeds will have its first world champion."
As you'd expect from a world champion - particularly one who has won all but one of his 27 professional career bouts - Selby has no concerns whatsoever about fighting in such an environment.
"It's only four hours up the road from my home so it's not so much of a lions' den to me," said the Welshman.
"The title is world champion. I should be ready to defend my title anywhere in the world. The support is irrelevant, it's just another defence to me, another fight."
As avid supporters of Cardiff and Leeds respectively, Selby and Warrington used the football rivalry to help promote this weekend's contest, with the pair meeting on the Elland Road turf at half-time of the Bluebirds' 4-1 demolition job of the Whites in February more than three months before the fighters' battle in the ring.
And if Selby can match the swagger and dominance that Cardiff showed in the two fixtures against Leeds in the Championship last season, there's no doubt that the words "and still" will be uttered once again.
Warrington - with his unbeaten record of 26-0 - is more than capable of causing an upset, something the bookies don't see happening given that Selby is odds on to retain his world title.
But while Warrington will have the whole of Leeds in his corner, Selby will once again have the Bluebirds - as well as an entire nation - behind him.
And as Warnock has found during his time in the Welsh capital so far, with that kind of backing, special things can be achieved.
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