'In the big time now' - Cacace eyes lightweight champ Lomachenko after Wembley win

IBF super-featherweight champion Anthony Cacace says he is successful nan "big clip now" arsenic he considers moving up to lightweight to situation Vasiliy Lomachenko aft beating Josh Warrington astatine Wembley.

Cacace, whose world title was not connected nan line, secured a unanimous determination triumph complete two-time featherweight champion Warrington arsenic he backed up his stunning triumph complete Joe Cordina successful May.

While Eduardo 'Sugar' Nunez is Cacace's mandatory challenger astatine super-featherweight, nan Belfast combatant outlined his ambitions successful nan heavier people against nan likes of four-time world champion Lomachenko aliases Gervonta Davis.

"I'm successful that league, I'm correct location for immoderate of those boys," Cacace said of a imaginable lightweight bout successful nan United States.

"If I move up to lightweight, I'm nan mandatory challenger for Lomachenko's title. We're conscionable going to person to see. It's each successful my hands. I'm successful nan driving seat.

"We'll spot what nan early holds."

Having beaten Cordina to declare nan IBF super-featherweight crown successful May, Cacace was primed to take sides his title against Warrington, who was stepping up from featherweight aft losing his past 2 contests against Luis Alberto Lopez and Leigh Wood.

While Cacace looked successful power early connected against Cordina, it took him a while to find his scope against nan 33-year-old Yorkshireman.

Ultimately, though, Cacace grew into nan conflict and looked comfortable for overmuch of it.

"He was very beardown and very intelligent," 35-year-old Cacace said of Warrington, who appeared to awesome his intent to discontinue aft laying down his gloves successful nan ringing pursuing nan fight.

"He had decidedly done his homework connected me. He was holding maine from nan left-hand broadside truthful I couldn't get nan correct uppercut aliases nan correct hook.

"But he's a two-time world champion. He's sewage a awesome squad down him, Sean O'Hagan his begetter and nan remainder of nan group astir him are each clued in. I didn't expect thing less, to beryllium honorable - I expected a difficult conflict and that's what I got."

Cacace and Warrington's conflict was 1 of nan undercard contests for Saturday night's main arena which saw Daniel Dubois sound retired chap Briton Anthony Joshua to clasp nan IBF heavyweight title.

Cacace's triumph came pinch Wembley still immoderate measurement short of nan 96,000-strong crowd that watched Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's three-song group and a scintillating header fight.

But it is still nan grandest shape Cacace has graced and he said it was "amazing" to present different large triumph for nan Irish boxing community.

"I'm a proud Andersonstown man and I'm very proud of my property and nan group astir it, but not only that - nan full of Belfast; north, south, east, westbound and nan full of Ireland.

"I'm conscionable ace proud to beryllium Irish and to beryllium doing them each proud."

Cacace, who paid tribute to nan support of his squad and family aft different large win, added that he is surviving a dream having travel from comparative obscurity to nan heights of a Wembley triumph successful nan abstraction of 18 months.

"If you were to inquire maine this a year-and-a-half-ago, I'd person dismissed it arsenic silly talk.

"Now it's existent talk and we're each successful nan large clip and we want to proceed marching forward."