Trainer Ben Davison informed Leigh Wood that the boxer would “get a rematch” after falling by the wayside to finish his fighter’s encounter with Mauricio Lara.
Wood struggled again to his ft after being felled by Lara’s left hook within the seventh spherical, prompting Davison’s intervention from the nook to convey the bout to an finish.
It meant the 34-year-old ceded the WBA featherweight title with a TKO defeat in his dwelling metropolis of Nottingham.
Davison’s choice to convey the conflict to a detailed with time working out within the spherical has been closely debated, with Tony Bellew among those initially criticising the coach’s tossing of the towel.
In behind-the-scenes footage from the occasion at Motorpoint Arena launched by Matchroom Boxing on YouTube, Wood will be seen to react with shock at Davison’s choice.
Turning to his nook to protest, Wood appears to point that he felt high-quality to proceed.
“You will get a rematch,” Davison is heard to inform his fighter within the instant aftermath of the stoppage.
Later, Davison additional expands on his choice within the ring as Lara his maiden international title.
“Listen, you’ve got a rematch,” he informed a pissed off Wood. “You were a bit too hurt.”
Wood responds: “I was alright”.
But Davison insists, asking the fighter to “trust” him after once more stressing that he felt the 34-year-old was “too hurt” to compete.
Wood does have a rematch clause in his contract and should now resolve whether or not he needs to face Lara once more.
Both fighters have additionally been related with a possible battle with British featherweight Josh Warrington.
Lara has already confronted Warrington twice, securing a TKO victory in early 2021 earlier than a second assembly was delivered to a halt after an unintentional lower to the Mexican’s head.
Having appeared to spit at Warrington after his WBA belt win, the 24-year-old says he could be blissful to return to England to face both fighter.
“It’s almost like my second home here,” Lara mentioned, in keeping with Boxing Scene.
“Right now, I’m tired. I wanna spend some time with my family. It’s been a really long training camp. And, you know, whatever my manager says, whatever Eddie Hearn says. You know, I’m ready for it. I’ll take anything on.”