By Brian Webber: Leigh Wooden says Mauricio Lara’s aggressive preventing model will likely be a“recipe for catastrophe” for him when the 2 sq. off on February 18th on the Motorpoint Enviornment in Nottingham, England.
It’s very important that Wooden not get hit too usually by Lara as a result of he’s simply the largest puncher he’ll have confronted in his profession. Lara is a much bigger puncher than Wooden and is youthful with higher hand velocity. He’s additionally a superior mixture puncher than Wooden, which makes him harmful for the soon-to-be 35-year-old Brit.
Lara and Wooden had been scheduled to combat final September, however a bicep damage for Leigh necessitated that the competition be moved to February 18th.
The 24-year-old Lara was suspicious in regards to the damage, feeling that Wooden might have faked being harm to save lots of himself from being knocked out, much like Josh Warrington.
Wooden (26-2, 16 KOs) focuses on taking aside fighters that slug it out with him, and he feels that the Mexican energy puncher Lara (25-2-1, 18 KOs) is the right opponent for him to create one other “spotlight reel” knockout so as to add to his rising assortment.
How the 34-year-old Wooden knocked out his final opponent Michael Conlan within the twelfth spherical final March was brutal to observe.
Conlan made the crucial error of preventing along with his again in opposition to the ropes, and that was all that Wooden wanted to catch him with a collection of large blows that knocked him mindless, sending him by way of the ropes for the KO.
Going into the spherical, Wooden was behind on the scorecards and wanted one thing miraculous to tug out the win.
Wooden wants this win to place him ready to face the combat winner between IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez and Conlan. Additionally, Wooden desires to defend in opposition to former IBF champion Josh Warrington as a result of that will be an enormous match-up in Nottingham.
With Warrington coming off a loss to Lopez, he gained’t be within the place to attempt to stage the combat with Wooden in his hometown of Leeds.
“In fact, we put together for twelve rounds. I don’t know if it’ll full twelve rounds,” Leigh Wooden informed Matchroom Boxing about his match-up with Mauricio Lara. “I appear to get plenty of wins within the twelfth spherical, however I don’t suppose this combat will go this far, despite the fact that I will likely be getting ready for it.
“The issues he does is a recipe for catastrophe in opposition to myself. The likelihood may be very excessive that I’ll get him out of there pretty early and add one other reel to the knockout reels I’ve obtained already.
