Leigh Wood has stated he desires a rematch with Mauricio Lara ‘in May or June’, after dropping the WBA featherweight title to the Mexican final month.
Wood, combating in his hometown of Nottingham, suffered a TKO defeat by Lara in February, because the Briton’s coach Ben Davison threw within the towel late in Round 7.
Wood, 34, had simply crushed the referee’s rely after a knockdown, however Davison opted to guard his fighter from doubtlessly sustaining additional harm.
“It’s been hard, because it still hurts,” Wood informed the BBC. “I want an immediate rematch. I’ve told [promoter] Eddie Hearn that’s what I want.
“I want the rematch as soon as possible; I want it as early as the end of May, or in June by the latest.
“I can’t say too much, because I don’t want to give away the gameplan, but I knew that the first four rounds are when he’s most dangerous, and then he was gassing.
“He was as I thought he was, and he didn’t know what I was doing. I just got caught with a good shot. I got complacent, started planting my feet and paid the price.”
Speaking on Davison’s choice to throw within the towel with six seconds left within the seventh spherical, Wood added: “He’s there to look after me, his job is to protect me, but I’d rather die trying to win.
“I think I would’ve been alright, but I get why he did it. I’ll come back to fight another day, and I’ve got two kids at home.”
Lara, 24, has additionally been linked with a trilogy bout in opposition to Josh Warrington.
Lara beat the Briton through TKO in February 2021, earlier than the pair’s rematch ended as a technical draw seven months later. Lara suffered a extreme lower within the second spherical after an unintended conflict of heads.
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