Heaney (19-2-1, 6 KOs) dropped a unanimous decision to Warburton (17-2-2, 2 KOs) when they first met at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena on March 28.

On Saturday night, the middleweight pair will run it back in what Heaney insists will be the final fight of his nine-year career. The clash will serve as the co-feature on the Queensberry event headlined by Liam Davies’ European featherweight title defense against Nathaniel Collins, live on DAZN.

Now former British champion Heaney, 37, admits there is pressure on him to turn the tables on his opponent from Colwyn Bay, Wales because he wants to ensure he heads into retirement off the back of a victory.

He told The Ring: “I am content no matter what happens in the fight but the idea is that I want to retire a winner. In my mind that puts a bit more pressure on me because I’ve got to win.

“I don’t want a defeat over my head when I head into retirement because I don’t want to end as a loser.”

Heaney lost via scores of 97-93 x2 and 98-92 after their 10-round clash but thought those scorecards flattered the victor.

“He literally pinched some of those rounds,” Heaney said.

“To be honest, at the end of the fight I thought it was either a draw or I might have got it by a round. I was being generous to myself but I thought I had done enough.

“Then when they said the winner had won eight out of 10 rounds I thought I haven’t won by that much but I’ll take it. Then they said it was for him I couldn’t believe it. I thought ‘wow.’

“It didn’t really make for a terribly exciting fight and I don’t feel like he won because of him, he won because of me.

“For whatever reason, I didn’t perform but that’s all sorted now. I know what I have to do to turn it around and go out on a high.”