Comments Thread For: Michael Conlan: I Believe I'll Win Comfortably Against Leigh Wood

[harry-greb]

Never heard that view before - VERY interesting and now I come to think of it - it is often true! Look at Taylor>Ramirez>Caterall. Lopez>Loma>Kombosos. What do you put it down to? Complacency? natural inclination to take foot of pedal? Putting themselves on a (false) pedestal?

I can't take credit for it. Breadman has said it in numerous mail bags.
Hard to mentally repeat the pitch you get to for your biggest fight I'd imagine. Should be interesting in this fight. Still think wood will catch him at some stage

[SteveM]

I can't take credit for it. Breadman has said it in numerous mail bags.
Hard to mentally repeat the pitch you get to for your biggest fight I'd imagine. Should be interesting in this fight. Still think wood will catch him at some stage

I've had a re-think. Looked at video. Wood struggled with Jazza ****ens movement. Conlan moves a lot better than ****ens. Xu-Can was tailor-made for Wood - march forward and no head movement. It looks to be a close fight and I'm going with Conlan. I don't think any judges will dare mess up a score card after last week's debacle so Wood fighting in his home town hopefully won't influence the judges and we'll get a properly scored fight.

[SteveM]

I've had a re-think. Looked at video. Wood struggled with Jazza ****ens movement. Conlan moves a lot better than ****ens. Xu-Can was tailor-made for Wood - march forward and no head movement. It looks to be a close fight and I'm going with Conlan. I don't think any judges will dare mess up a score card after last week's debacle so Wood fighting in his home town hopefully won't influence the judges and we'll get a properly scored fight.

also, that fight against Xu Can was clearly Wood's career-high performance to date - so there is that

[harry-greb]

I've had a re-think. Looked at video. Wood struggled with Jazza ****ens movement. Conlan moves a lot better than ****ens. Xu-Can was tailor-made for Wood - march forward and no head movement. It looks to be a close fight and I'm going with Conlan. I don't think any judges will dare mess up a score card after last week's debacle so Wood fighting in his home town hopefully won't influence the judges and we'll get a properly scored fight.

I'm sticking with wood. Conlan has a tendency to lose his discipline and get involved in a brawl. Should be good

[harry-greb]

also, that fight against Xu Can was clearly Wood's career-high performance to date - so there is that

What a fight!!! Conlan should have ran around the ring for the last round and he'd have won. His tendency to trade was his undoing. Glad he's ok. But that boy wood, never gave up!!!

[SteveM]

What a fight!!! Conlan should have ran around the ring for the last round and he'd have won. His tendency to trade was his undoing. Glad he's ok. But that boy wood, never gave up!!!

Well my original thoughts on Conlan turned out to be correct, your thoughts too. It was a very enjoyable fight - just the one swing for Wood from a low point to a high point - but what a turn around.
In some senses I agree with you. Conlan lost the fight as it was his to win. Conlan has 2 problems the way I see it - 1st he lacks power (or maybe it is that he won't sit down on his punches) and 2nd he loves to fight when he has the footwork to mostly avoid doing that. He is over-confident in his own abilities, there is a mismatch between how good he thinks he is and how good he really is - he needs to be more respectful of his opponents and learn from this setback.