CHINESE sensation Xu Can and Nottingham’s Leigh Wood battle for the WBA ‘Regular’ featherweight title in the main event of a stacked Matchroom Fight Camp card TONIGHT.
Wood took the fight on short notice as he aims to complete an incredible fairytale to become world champ.
- Start time: Undercard UNDERWAY/ main event 10.30pm approx
- TV/ live stream: DAZN
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WOOD WINS
What a performance from Leigh Wood.
He took the fight on late notice.
And is now champion of the world!
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND 12
Can starts the round quickly, but is it out of desperation?
HUGE right hand from Wood! And Can is DOWN.
He gets up after EIGHT.
Wood carries on the pressure with 20 seconds to go the referee STOPS IT!
WOOD WINS AND IS THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND 11
Great round for Wood.
Can doesn’t look happy in there but does land a strong right hand right on the bell.
We go into the final round! All to play for.
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND 10
Strong round for the champion.
He’s looking terribly disappointing tonight but is beginning to throw more shots.
Two more rounds to go!
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND NINE
Good work from Can in the ninth.
He landed some incredible left hooks in that one.
Really took the wind out of Wood’s sails.
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND EIGHT
Wood again the aggressor here in the eighth.
Connects with a couple of bodyshots clean as a whistle.
Is he sensing the shock?
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND SEVEN
Can continuing to walk forward with that high guard.
But he hasn’t troubled Wood either.
Interesting bout here. Is Can there for the taking?
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND SIX
Entering the halfway stage and another strong round for Wood.
Can doesn’t seem troubled at any time though.
Will the champ step it up a gear?
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND FIVE
Another good round for Wood but Can catches him with a right hook.
The challenger still more than in this one though, and keeping the pressure up.
Phenomenal performance.
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND FOUR
Can has stepped it up in the fourth.
But Wood catches him with a terrific uppercut!
Barn-burner this one.
CAN VS WOOD
Some beautiful shots again from Wood in the third!
He;s looking very far from beign overawed here.
Can does reply with some hard jabs though, he’s beginning to pick it up.
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND 2
Great round from Wood!
He caught Can with a cracking uppercut and has followed up with bodyshots.
How will the champ respond?
CAN VS WOOD – ROUND 1
Scrappy opening round there.
But Wood certainly in this one.
Forced the champion back on a number of occasions.
Warming up nicely!
CAN VS WOOD
Wood out first, followed by Can.
Marcus McDonnell is the ref.
David Diamonte is reading out the names.
Here we go!
CAN VS WOOD
It’s main event time!
Can Nottingham’s Wood pull it off?
World champ Can Xu hasn’t fought in nearly TWO YEARS because of the pandemic.
Will it be another Covid-era shock?
CHERRY ON THE CAKE
The Bournemouth man is now the European and British cruiserweight champion as well as the Commonwealth.
Great night for the Shane McGuigan gym that has niotched wins for Anthony Fowwler and CBS.
But a really hard to swallow result for Tommy McCarthy…
CHRIS BILLHAM-SMITH WINS SD
The judges had a tough job splitting those two tough and skilled men and called it
The cards read: 115-114 McCarthy, 115-114 CBS and 116-112 to CBS.
CBS is overjoyed, almost crying in the ring…
ROUND TWELVE
CBS is rocked by another right hook from the clinch but the Bournemouth man is so strong.
McCarthy lands some crisp shots on the ropes and CBS covers up.
The bell goes and McCarthy’s fans think their man has done enough.
The two brilliant fighters hug and both trainers lift their brave charges aloft.
A brilliant contest…
ROUND ELEVEN
McCarthy scores with a couple of counters.
CBS walks onto to a piledriver of a right hook but he does not fold, somehow.
The pair almost bundle out of the ring together when they wrestle too close to the ropes.
These fellas are giving the fans everything…
ROUND TEN
McCarthy scores with a right hand but he admires it too long and CBS pings him with a double jab.
McCarthy now has a gash on the left cheek, well below the eye but definitely painful.
CBS is bullying his way back into the championship rounds.Massive six minutes coming up for these brave young men…
ROUND NINE
McCarthy scores with a little left hook but CBS is rock hard.
A looping right hook sends CBS back into the ropes but he bounces back out into the action.
CBS smiles as the bell goes to end the round, he does not seem hurt but is he getting hit too much?
McCarthy seems to have more in the tank…
ROUND EIGHT
CBS, the more muscley man, appears to be tiring in the final straight.
But he lands a peach of a left hook that stiffens McCarthy briefly.
Both men look set to go the distance now but whose style will the judges prefer?
ROUND SEVEN
CBS lands a crisp one-two but McCarthy handles it.
The blood is pouring away from the corner of the Irishman’s right eye spo he should be OK.
McCarthy land an uppercut and right hand.
But CBS whacks back in the centre of the Essex ring.
McCarthy drops his hands at the end of the session and misses with a whild left hand that CBS ducks.
ROUND SIX
McCarthy lands a looping right hand but CBS ignores it.
CBS eats a check right hook when McCarthy lures him on to it.
But just as the round ends McCarthy is badly cut over his right eye.
If the blood starts pouring into his eye he will struggle to see.
ROUND FIVE
CBS has McCarthy hurt with a thudding right hook.
McCarthy is backed onto the ropes and battered but he pokes his tongue out into the crowed to ease his fans’ panic.
McCarthy looks spark out on his feet but CBS will not rush in.
The bell goes with McCarthy recovering from a real one-sided round.
Will CBS regret not pouring on the pressure when his man was buzzed?
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
