An absorbed Leigh Wood has actually discussed completion of his job, discussing the long-lasting influence of boxing and exactly how it has actually affected his choices.
The 36-year-old boxer, that tests Anthony Cacace for the IBO super-featherweight champion on Saturday at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, claimed that he was still confident of battling at Nottingham Forest’s ground yet acknowledges that his age and time protest him.
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Wood claimed: “I’ve not given up on it, but I’m coming towards the tail end, and for that fight to happen, you need a lot of luck. You need the right opponent, which is hard when it’s the wrong time. Then you have the right time and right opponent. Now, it’s the right time, but the wrong opponent.”
He included: “It’s not about my performance, age, or physicality, because I’m on point and I’m performing. It’s how much these victories cost me, and at what cost? How many punches am I taking? How many have I taken to get to this point? How many punches will I take in the fight? We’ll answer those questions after the fight.”
Wood claimed that he had actually had just 5 ‘real’ battles, which all these had actually can be found in his most-recent rounds. Despite this, he claimed he really felt ‘great’ yet was worried concerning the long-lasting effects of his job.
He claimed: “I’ve worked my arse off for so many years. I want to be able to enjoy it after boxing. I want to watch my kids grow up and be there and support them with my faculties intact.”
Wood, that two times formerly held the WBA featherweight belt, claimed that his battles had actually left him fairly economically comfy. Since 2022, he has actually signed up sway Michael Conlan and Josh Warrington, while splitting a set of rounds with Mauricio Lara in 2023.
A home-soil battle versus Cacace for the latter’s IBO super-featherweight title will certainly note Wood’s initial battle in a year-and-a-half. Despite the lack of exercise, Wood claimed that he had actually educated carefully for the battle, having actually been offered 6 weeks’ notification. The essential to his prep work, he claimed, was to continuously pierce actions and series.
Wood claimed: “How do people predict the stock market or earthquakes? They look at what’s happened before. It’s exactly the same thing with what my coaches do.”
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He took place: “It’s not complicated. If you do this in this area, you’re probably going to get this. If you do this thing, you’re probably going to get that. If you don’t do this, they’re going to do this. So, we pull out the important things, and we execute and drill them and try not to overcomplicate things.”
Talk transformed to the Warrington battle from October 2023, which Wood won in 7 rounds atSheffield Arena He claimed that he and his group had actually adhered to the very same training system.
Wood claimed: “I know the Warrington fight doesn’t look like that from the outside, but the actual sequence when I finished it was something we’d drilled and practised. We knew that he would do certain things. I said before the fight that he’d be working extremely hard to win those rounds, and I’d make him pay for it.”
Wood made his comments throughout a sit-down meeting on the Queensberry Promotions You Tube network.
