Michael Conlan Not Worried About Judges in Leigh Wood Title Clash

Olympian Michael Conlan, who is no stranger to controversial conclusions, is not apprehensive about the scorecards in his forthcoming struggle with WBA “frequent” winner Leigh Wooden.

Their showdown takes put following Saturday night in Nottingham.

Final weekend, undisputed junior welterweight winner Josh Taylor won a controversial twelve spherical break up conclusion about Jack Catterall.

The British Boxing Board of Regulate is now investigating the scoring of the contest.

“Selfishly, it possibly occurred at a great time top into my struggle,” Conlan explained to The Impartial. “It’s possibly heading to be a bit challenging for it to take place now that has occurred. I felt devastated for Jack Catterall, but in a egocentric way it was far better it transpired then than for me.”

“I’m not nervous about knocking any person out or anything like that. If it will come, it comes. It very maybe could come, but at the minute I’m just targeted on staying the finest I can be and if I do that, no judge in the globe could rob me of that, so I’m thrilled.”

The battle with Wood will have a combine of British and global officials.

Conlan was on the receiving conclude of a controversial conclusion in the Rio Olympics, in which he was knocked off by Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals.

Conlan admits there have been some very questionable scorecards in latest decades in the Uk. 

Centered on what a short while ago transpired in Taylor-Catterall, Conlan thinks the boxing earth will be seeing the scorecards incredibly closely when he faces Wood.

“If you seem at the past number of several years of judging on these shores, you could say that. Why would any fighter want to arrive to the British isles? Any overseas fighter who does is up from it,” Conlan stated.

“It’s grow to be quite hard to get a final decision and which is regrettable. With any luck , with the eyes of the environment watching with anything that has transpired, I do not have to flip the bird once more and go mad. I don’t assume it will.”