Leigh Wood requires to work out persistence and discipline to recover the WBA featherweight world title from Mauricio Lara at the Manchester Arena in England on Saturday. The British fighter confesses that a 2nd succeeding defeat to Lara will likely end his time as an elite fighter in the department. Lara is the present ESPN featherweight ranking leader, while Wood is ranked 8th. Lara has actually revealed harmful power in blockage wins against Wood and Josh Warrington, then the world’s leading featherweight, in 2021. Despite being ahead on all 3 judges’ scorecards, Wood got captured by a counter hook. Wood stated a bit of persistence and modifications will assist him to develop on the errors he made in their very first fight. Lara’s counterpunching was an issue for Wood in their very first fight, and he stated Lara was much better than anticipated. Wood was dissatisfied when his fitness instructor Ben Davison surrendered to stop the fight in the seventh round against Lara. He thinks another loss will be an enormous obstacle to his profession.
