Matchroom Boxing won the rights to promote the World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight title fight between champion Leigh Wood and mandatory challenger Michael Conlan with a bid of US$ 1,566,666. The tentative date for the fight is the first part of 2022 and Matchroom gave as possible venues New York, USA; Belfast, Northern Ireland and Nottingham, England.
Also present at the bidding was Top Rank, representatives of the challenger Conlan, which offered US$1,210,000. They had planned to hold the fight on January 29, 2022 with Las Vegas, New York and Belfast as possible venues. Continue reading “Matchroom wins Wood-Conlan Purse bid”