In an all-British world title clash, WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood (28-3, 17 KOs) knocked out former two-time IBF champ Josh Warrington (31-3-1, 8 KOs) in round seven on Saturday night at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England. Warrington had it going his way until round seven when Wood connected with a right hook that staggered Warrington. A barrage of punches from Wood then dropped Warrington and left him unable to continue.
What a peach of a punch, Warrington was taking over but as Leigh does he finds a way. Never count him out
Very entertaining!
I expected it and it happened
Wood did not win. Josh lost. Josh lost, because he lost focus. Ridiculous. There are at least 20 guys that I know of who can beat Wood. Wood is NOT all that and a bag of chips. What Wood won tonight was the opportunity to really get his ass beat by a quality in shape featherweight.
I thought Warrington was going to pull this one off but he got caught with a great shot. Credit to Wood’s patience and power.
Wood is limited, but he sure is exciting to watch!
Some how Wood finds a way to win. This is not the first time he’s come from behind
Great fight. But give Warrington the 1 minute to recover. He was talking sensibly to the ref, who could easily have watched over Warrington during that 60 seconds. Needed a ref like Jack Reiss.
Jack Reiss would have asked him if he was ok and then to make sure, he would have send him out to go pickup a house special fried rice with beef and an order of fried dumplings with extra sauce. Once done, he could continue.
Agree Reddington. Great sudden combination of punches by Wood dropping Warrington. Ref knows the round in finished, but still decides to stop the fight regardless. It’s a world championship fight, the ref needs better discretion.
Floyd Mayweather claims his protégé, Curmel Moton, can beat Leigh Wood right now. Does anyone else besides Floyd think so?
Promotor ramble mixed with self interjection. Too soon to predict. Somehow Floyd would find a way to make a C-section about himself.
Curmel would destroy him, he is young but given the chance he would be focused enough that his determination will be superior to anything Wood will bring
I believe you are correct. The Mayweather gym and mentorship is iron sharpening iron. Every body in that gym is a bad MoFo. A fighter can’t help but get better or get out.
Only one way to find out. Curmel takes it. Might as well just take the jump.
For sure. That kid is awesome.
Took the round off to go get stoned and figured Warrington had it in the bag. Returned to see the slow motion KO
That’s the problem with this generation. You guys or gals really have your priorities in order. What’s it like to smoke on a turd?
It wasn’t played in slow motion. That sticky-icky had you stuck.
Wood is a poor man’s Saad Muhammad……… Bashed to fcuk. Rallies and scores the spectacular knockout
One wonders, will Wood suffer tge same sudden loss of punch resistance and career trajectory there after as Saad
Only time will tell I guess
I knew Ice Man, or Matthew Saad Muhammad, ever since I was a kid. We called him Ice Man because he punched so hard.
Ice would spar with us lightweights, junior lightweights, and welteweights. Even when he pulled his punches them joints were still hard. Just thinking about those sparring sessions is making my body hurt. LOL
You’d be in the shower and you knew when Ice was on the heavy bag. Thud, Thud, Thud, heavy bag chains would be rattling all around. It sounded like Juniper Gym was about to cave in. You just brought back some good memories, fam.
The underdog wins again. Sooner then later those heavy hands where gonna land and they did.
He was favored.
– Outstanding come-from-behind KO by Leigh Wood….
Great fight but a bad stoppage.
Michael Alexander shouldn’t have stopped it with no time left in the round – Warrington deserved that minutes rest to see if he could recover. Given the success he was having up to that point (leading on all official cards), he deserved better.
Wood might have stopped him the next round anyway, or Warrington might have recovered, but either way we were robbed of a conclusive ending.
Wood is not a great fighter he is good yet his wins are impressive due to his heart of giving it his best and that plays a big factor when fighting, people forget the power of self belief… With that said a good power fighter with speed and the same heart will defeat him
Warrington was definitely hurt. If there were a minute more in the round, and not a minute rest, certainly the fight should have been stopped. But could he have recovered that is the question. If the fight had continued, maybe Wood would have won round 8, or ended it there, IF after 8, the fight might have been even on two of the scores, and Wood up by two on the other. I can easily see a rematch being made. Were there any protests by Warrington’s camp?
Who needs to be good when you got power like that. Came out of no where. I say put him in with Floyd’s fighter, Wood mops the floor with him.
The turning point was when the clown ref took a point off Josh in the 7th with no prior warnings.
Warrington seemed to want to get the point back & discarded his defence?
Leigh will get KTFO’d by any decent opponent with a punch… sadly Josh lacks firepower or Woods would have been asleep early on.
Leigh Wood had no sting on his punches while Warrington was aggressive and was landing clean hard shots from the 3rd round on. The only punch that had some snap was the right hook, which he landed to good effect several times during the fight. Wood was taking a beating till the sudden end.
That right hook came out of nowhere and seriously hurt Warrington. To Wood’s credit, he followed up on the opportunity and landed several more clean shots to end the fight. It was a shocker because of the sudden ending. Warrington was unlucky that the ref ended matters because the bell was ready to ring giving him a minute to recover.
Wood looked weight drained at 126 lbs. His punches were lacking snap and Warrington was landing at will. I’m sure Wood will move up to 130 lbs in his future fights. He’ll be much stronger at that weight class.
Totally agree that was definitely the last time you will see Leigh Woods at 126, Woods was definitely struggling but when you have a right hook like his you can get away with it, so unless Warrington moves up in weight which I can’t quite see there won’t be a rematch.
Great entertaining fight!
Wood wins again coming from behind to score a vicious KO!!
He beats all the featherweights including Ramirez, Lopez, especially Curmel who would get KTFO.
He beat count easy and round over Did he just NOT want to continue ? had 60 seconds
i got the sense that wood was waiting for warrington to slow down a bit and then turn it on later. he was doing a poor job if indeed that was his strategy, but he found a way to get the job done to his credit.