Leigh Wood (boxer)

Leigh Wood
Statistics
Real name	Leigh Wood
Nickname(s)	Leigh-Thal
Rated at	Super Bantamweight
Nationality	British
Born	(1988-08-01) 1 August 1988
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	18
Wins	17
Wins by KO	9
Losses	1

Leigh Wood (born 1 August 1988) is British professional boxer who currently resides in Nottingham, England. He currently fights in the Featherweight division.^[1] Leigh has lived in the Nottinghamshire borough of Gedling for all his life and regularly travels to Ingles Gym in Sheffield to train.^[2]

Wood fought Gavin McDonnell for the British Super Bantamweight title on 22 February 2014 but loss after the fight was stopped in the 6th round due to Wood being stunned and unable to defend himself. Wood put on an impressive performance and was in control of the fight after winning the first 5 rounds, but prior to the fight Wood had to lose weight for himself to make the weight for the fight and after a few rounds Wood was becoming tired. After the loss to McDonnell, Wood had a comeback fight against Martin Mubiru and put in good performance and earned a 3rd round TKO.

Then after 3 more fights and 3 more wins at his natural weight (Featherweight) he stepped up in class to box the man who took his former foe to a draw Josh Wale in a British title eliminator. Leigh outboxed Josh Wale for the majority of the fight finishing with last 2 of the 10 rounds with eye catching combinations and powerful right hands, winning the fight unanimous on all 3 score cards.

Leighs next fight was a redemption fight for the midlands area featherweight title against Lee Glover who beat Leigh in the Amateurs 7 years prior. Leigh came out in the first round pot shoting and making Glover miss before landing some big punches before the bell, shaking glover to his boots. The second round went the same way finally Leigh stopping glover with a big Left and perfectly picked flurry of punches sending glover to the canvas and not making the count.

Professional boxing record

17 Wins (9 knockouts), 1 Defeats, 0 Draws
Res.	Record	Opponent	Type	Round	Date	Location	Notes
Win	13-1	🇱🇻 Janis Puksins	TKO	2	2015-07-03	Meres leisure centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
Win	12-1	Martin Mubiru	TKO	3	2014-05-16	Rushcliffe Arena Nottingham, England
Loss	11-1	Gavin McDonnell	TKO	6	2014-02-22	Ice Arena Hull, England	Vacant British super-bantamweight title
Win	11-0	Simas Volosinas	PTS	4	2013-12-13	Ice Sheffield, Sheffield, England
Win	10-0	Genilson de Jesus Santos	RTD	3	2013-11-01	Clifton Leisure Centre Nottingham, England	Vacant International Masters super-bantamweight title
Win	9-0	Ian Bailey	TKO	2	2013-06-22	Clifton Leisure Centre Nottingham, England	Vacant British Masters featherweight title
Win	8-0	Sid Razak	PTS	6	2013-04-13	Ponds Forge, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Win	7-0	Kristian Laight	PTS	4	2013-02-02	The Arena, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Win	6-0	Tibor Meszaros	TKO	1	2012-12-08	KC Sports Arena, Hull, Yorkshire
Win	5-0	Dai Davies	PTS	4	2012-11-17	Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, England
Win	4-0	Chuck Jones	RTD	1	2012-09-28	Magna Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire
Win	3-0	Pavels Senkovs	PTS	4	2012-02-18	Magna Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire
Win	2-0	Ryan McNicol	PTS	4	2011-11-12	Trafford Park, Manchester, England
Win	1-0	Chuck Jones	PTS	6	2011-10-28	Clifton Leisure Centre, Nottingham	Professional Debut

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