Wood vs Lara: Results, Highlights, Play-by-play
Check out the results and highlights of Leigh Wood vs Maurico Lara
Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara clash today in a battle for Wood’s WBA featherweight title. Both men are aggressors by nature, Join us for live coverage of the main event and results throughout the night.
Wood (26-2, 16KOs) comes in on the back of one of the most spectacular victories of last year, as he came from behind to knock Michael Conlan clean out of the ring last April. Lara, meanwhile, burst onto the scene when he put a heavy beating on hometown favourite Josh Warrington in 2021, and he’s hoping to repeat the trick here.
The card will be available on DAZN. Coverage starts at 2PM ET (7PM GMT), with main event ringwalks expected at about 5:50 PM (10.50 GMT), but keep an eye out here for changes to that.
If you’re interested in the early prelims, DAZN often air a before-the-bell show on youtube, but announcement of that and which fights are on it usually doesn’t happen till quite late, so keep an eye on DAZN boxing’s twitter and youtube accounts should you be interested.
update: those early prelims have started, two fights down, on DAZN boxing’s youtube channel.
update: okay, the prelims are done. Main card starts in half an hour, because unlike the UFC, boxing cards don’t typically stretch prelim cards to fill in the time till the main card starts.
Main Event Play-by-play
Results
WBA World Featherweight title: Leigh Wood vs. Mauricio Lara
British super-lightweight title: Dalton Smith vs. Billy Allington
Lightweight: Gary Cully vs. Wilfredo Flores
Crusierweight: Cheavon Clarke vs. Israel Duffus
Super-bantamweight Gamal Yafai vs. Diego Alberto Ruiz; Super bantamweight
Middleweight: Aaron Bowen KO1 Mathieu Gomes
Light middleweight: Junaid Boston TKO-7 Peter Kramer
Super middleweight: Kieron Conway def. Jorge Silva 80-72 (ref’s decision)
Super lightweight: Sam Maxwell def. Shaun Cooper 60-54 (ref’s decision)