By Sam Volz: Coach Ben Davison says his rationale for dropping out to drag Leigh Wooden out of his battle towards Mauricio Lara final Saturday is that he wasn’t sure that he may correctly defend himself after getting up from the seventh spherical knockdown.
Davison states that Lara (26-2-1, 19 KOs) was standing proper behind the referee, and he didn’t know if Wooden (26-3, 16 KOs) would have the ability to battle. On the similar time, Davison know that they’d the rematch clause they may use to get a second battle.
Davison, Eddie Hearn, and Frank Smith will meet to debate choices for Leigh’s subsequent battle. He says they will both battle Lara in an instantaneous rematch or face the winner of his trilogy match towards Josh Warrington.
“The query operating by my head was, ‘Was he in a position to defend himself?’ If we stood in entrance of somebody and counted for ten seconds, that’s a very long time to face in entrance of somebody when you’re not in a position to defend your self,’” mentioned Ben Davison on his Youtube channel about why he threw within the towel to save lots of Leigh Wooden within the seventh spherical final Saturday night time in his battle towards Mauricio Lara.
“Mauricio Lara was proper behind the referee. If the referee had stepped again, I wasn’t sure he would have the ability to defend himself, and that was a threat that I wasn’t keen to take. I perceive it was an enormous battle and a world title battle.
“If I used to be positive he may defend himself however nonetheless a threat of getting caught that’s a distinct state of affairs. So I needed to take that into consideration. I wasn’t keen to threat that. That’s the explanation why I chucked the towel in, which was an enormous choice, and I’m completely gutted about. I do really feel it was the fitting choice.
“I’m taking that into consideration that Leigh had a rematch clause. Taking all these items into consideration, I felt it was the fitting choice.
“What’s subsequent for Leigh? Within the coming weeks, we’ll sit down with Eddie and Frank, and the crew. We’ll focus on and take a look at choices. As Eddie talked about, there’s a rematch clause. So we’ll weigh that up, and focus on the choices.
“I do know the Warrington-Lara battle is an enormous battle, and there’s the potential of that occuring, and Leigh battle the winner of that. We’ll weigh up the choices and see what’s subsequent and what is sensible.
“All I can say is Leigh has misplaced earlier than, and the character and kind of individual he’s, he’s come again higher, and I’m assured he can do this this time. That is now the street to two-time. I’m assured in Leigh that he’s able to doing it, and that’s the brand new purpose set forward of us,” mentioned Davison.
