{"id":434502,"date":"2026-02-19T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:53:07","slug":"carl-froch-says-wood-vs-warrington-rematch-ends-in-another-ko-its-a-close-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434502\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch says Wood vs Warrington rematch ends in another KO: “It’s a close fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch has laid out his prediction ahead of this weekend\u2019s grudge match rematch between Leigh Wood<\/a> and Josh Warrington<\/a> in Nottingham.<\/p>\n

Wood surprised British boxing when he rallied back from a loss against Jazza Dickens by defeating Can Xu and Michael Conlan to become the WBA featherweight world champion. Then, he claimed the belt for a second time when he avenged a defeat to Mexican boogeyman, Mauricio Lara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Sheriff of Nottingham\u2019 was then tasked with Leeds\u2019 Josh Warrington in October 2023 and found himself behind on the scorecards, but managed to produce a sensational seventh-round stoppage to retain his title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, up at super-featherweight, Wood and Warrington are set to meet again, with the loser anticipated to retire from the sport, given their respective ages of 37 and 35 years old.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Sun Sport<\/a>, Froch admitted that he is bias towards his fellow Nottingham fan-favourite, but explained why he believes \u2018your money is safe\u2019 if you are backing Wood to score another win over Warrington.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat fight, great rematch, I am really looking forward to it. I am always going to pick Leigh Wood, it\u2019s going to be biased because he is my guy from Nottingham.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when somebody has got that power, that edge in power, I always sort of think to my self that your money is sort of safe, if you have got a puncher\u2019s chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeigh Wood carries power for 12 rounds, it\u2019s a close fight, a great fight, but I think that Leigh Wood by stoppage or knockout.<\/p>\n

The fight takes place on Saturday night at Nottingham Arena, and will be available to watch live on DAZN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch has laid out his prediction ahead of this weekend\u2019s grudge match rematch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}