Michael Conlan’s supporters were loud and proud Friday afternoon before, during and after the unbeaten Irishman and the English champion he’ll challenge Saturday night stepped on the British Boxing Board of Control’s scale.

Conlan wore green-framed sunglasses with Irish flags painted on the lenses. Leigh Wood, the defending WBA world featherweight champion, was draped in a British flag.

The went nose-to-nose as they talked trash on the stage in Nottingham, England, where they’ll square off for Wood’s championship at Motorpoint Arena.

Nottingham’s Wood weighed in a 125¾ pounds for the first defense of a WBA belt he won seven months ago from China’s Can Xu. Belfast’s Conlan came in at 125½ pounds for his title shot.

Conlan, 31, is slightly favored by oddsmakers, despite that he’ll fight in Wood’s hometown.

Wood, 33, will make the first defense of a WBA championship he surprisingly won with relative ease July 31. An underdog against Xu (18-3, 3 KOs), Wood was comfortably ahead on all three scorecards when he dropped and stopped Xu late in the 12th round of a fight that headlined a DAZN stream from Matchroom Boxing’s headquarters in Brentwood, England.

Conlan, meanwhile, will attempt to realize the dream he started pursuing following a controversial loss to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In his most recent fight, Conlan dominated TJ Doheny in what was supposed to be the toughest test of Conlan’s five-year pro career. He dropped Doheny with a body shot during the fifth round and defeated the Irish southpaw unanimously by wide distances on all three scorecards August 6 at Falls Park in Belfast (119-108, 116-111, 116-111).

Conlan won the WBA interim featherweight title six days after Wood upset Xu. The embattled WBA eliminated all its interim championships later in August, but Conlan remained the number one contender for Wood’s title.

DAZN will stream Wood-Conlan as the main event of a show scheduled to start at 7 p.m. GMT in the United Kingdom and Ireland. DAZN’s coverage will begin at 2 p.m. ET and 11 a.m. PT in the United States.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.