‘The Conlan rematch will happen’
ONE of British boxing’s great late bloomers, Nottingham featherweight Leigh Wood turned 34 this week, yet, 28 fights into his professional career, he feels he is just getting started.
He has every right to feel this way, given both the run of form he is currently enjoying and the setbacks from which he has bounced back. At 34, Wood is in fact better than he has ever been, enhanced by those aforementioned setbacks and the lessons they taught him. At 34, he is on the cusp of big fights, big opportunities, and big, potentially life-changing, paydays.
It could be said Wood, 26-2 (16), has reached this position due to sheer determination, something evident throughout his career and something he demonstrated in spades on March 12. That was the night Wood recovered from a heavy first-round knockdown against
