Ben Davison has added fuel to the potential unification fire.
The man who trains ‘regular’ WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood sits down with new member of the Boxing Social team Ali Drew on Thursday.
Davison recently saw his charge ordered Meet Leo Santa CruzMexican Super Champion with the WBA, in an attempt to get rid of one of the belts and have a penalty bodybuilding king in the weight class.
Santa Cruz requested a license to unify his WBA Super world title in featherweight with WBC champion Rey Vargas. However, the WBA has ordered the boxer from California to meet the Brit next or risk being disqualified.
‘El Terremoto’ then confirmed that he would advance ahead of the fight and ‘Leigh-thal’, from Nottingham, followed. That was before the WBA revealed that the share for the contest would be 75% to 25% in favor of Santa Cruz.
Davison siad:
“We have some options, Eddie’s [Hearn] has considered those options, but has yet to make a decision on Leigh Wood’s next move. “
Davison and his promoter, the aforementioned Hearn, don’t believe Wood (26-2, 16 KOs) will get to his true worth in the fight, thanks to the split judgment.
And a war was started to replace the one with Santa Cruz as a match of wits between Wood and Josh Warrington, IBF Champion, from Leeds.
Davison continued:
“It was definitely one of the options.
“It was a big fight and Josh Warrington is a great champion with a big name. Both fighters have huge fan bases behind them and great momentum with Leigh Wood and Nottingham Forest, who have just been promoted to the Premier League.
“Things are booming in Nottingham at the moment, especially going back to Leigh Wood’s battle with Michael Conlan, there’s a lot of momentum built there, and those two fan groups coming together, I think. it’s a giant war with a belt, without a belt, it doesn’t even matter. But depending on the situation with the ‘regular’ WBA and this WBA Super, it only gets bigger if it can be a unity clash. “
Warrington, who broke his jaw and broken arm last time, will be back in the ring before the end of the year after regaining the world championship with a seventh-round goal against his old rival Kiko Martinez – who returned later. there. this year – in a rematch at the First Live Arena in March.
The coach concludes:
“We are considering our options at the moment, but [if that fight happens]fans will get their deserved money.
“Warrington is in great battles, Leigh is in great battles, I think it is a great match, it will be a positive match and also an interesting fight, in my opinion. My opinion, so it’s definitely a match that myself, Leigh, Josh, his team and the whole boxing world are looking forward to and hopefully it can happen.”
