New champion alert: Leigh Wood takes Xu Can's WBA featherweight belt

Source: WBA

01/08/2021

New champion alert: Leigh Wood takes Xu Can's WBA featherweight belt

Leigh Wood TKO12 Xu Can... At Matchroom's Fight Camp, England's Leigh Wood stopped Xu Can in the last round to win the WBA featherweight title. The WBA wrote: "Although it was Xu who was ahead in the fight, it was Wood who dominated walking the ring and hitting hard. A hard right to the face in round twelve was the trigger for the victory of the 32 year-old fighter. Wood was able to send Xu to the canvas and although he got up, he was in bad shape, which the British fighter took advantage of to attack and force the referee to stop the fight with only a few seconds left in the fight." Wood is now 25-2, while Xu, who had not fought since 2019, is now 18-3. NOTE: The WBA still lists Leo Santa Cruz as its featherweight super champion even though Santa Cruz has not fought in the division since February 2019 and got KO'd in his last fight at super featherweight.