Lara Looking Powerful: Is Leigh Wood In Trouble?

Knockout device Mauricio Lara is looking extremely strong in advance of his title problem versus WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood this Saturday evening on DAZN at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England.

Lara (25-2-1, 18 KOs) confirmed off his electricity through an open up training on Wednesday, and his shots sounded like they were being coming from a middleweight.

The noise of the impression of Lara’s photographs helps make it difficult to envision Wood being ready to hang in there very long on Saturday. Until Wooden can get to Lara, he’s almost certainly not heading to previous extended within the ring.

“We’re well prepared for 12 rounds. Sometimes when you’re rather substantially certain about an result, it can be wholly break up on its head with the opposite, and it could be a points victory,” mentioned Leigh Wooden to Consume Rest Boxing Repeat about his fight on Saturday night against Mauricio Lara.

“I know what to do, and I’m comfy executing it. I can surely crack, but just coming out to try and knock anyone out, there is a whole lot a lot more to boxing. Right up until I came down listed here with Ben Davison, I don’t know how substantially there was to learn.

“I in no way appear at the bookie’s odds for the reason that it is the way the community thinks. Often the vast majority of what the community thinks is fully wrong. My eyes are set on Mauricio Lara, but I’m confident coming as a result of it.

“I’m going to get this battle and headline at the City Ground. Warrington would be a huge combat that would provide. The Conlan rematch would be large. Luis Lopez. I’ve bought so many possibilities, but I have received to get this combat, which I’m very self-assured about doing. After that, we can start searching at names.

“I believe that is a enormous struggle for the stadium [Josh Warrington] and the Conlan rematch as perfectly. I’m hearing rumors of him battling for a environment title. The Warrington struggle is the juiciest a person for the supporters, and that would in all probability be the ideal environment as properly.

“Around 6 or seven,” stated Wood about his prediction for the Lara struggle. “He’ll be too reckless. I’m going to satisfy him in the middle of the ring, and I have instructed him this. Ideally, he comes out and meets me in the center of the ring, and we’ll see what occurs.

“It’s fundamentally down to the minimal issues and the issues you’ve been drilling. I have been seeing a ton of films [of Lara], and my group goes around and analyzes hrs and several hours of footage. They dumb it down for me to get the most straightforward kind to stay suitable,” stated Wood.