Leigh Wood is a professional boxer who hails from England. He is a two-time world featherweight champion and currently holds World Boxing Association’s featherweight title which he won in May 2023 succeeding his previous stint between 2021 and 2023.
Wood has held the Commonwealth featherweight title in 2019 and the British featherweight title in 2021 while competing at regional level. He started his professional journey in boxing in 2011 when he squared off against Chuck Jones at Clifton Leisure Centre, Nottingham, England. He defeated Jones and went on to amass an impeccable record of 11 consecutive wins before suffering a loss.
Leigh Wood lost his first professional fight inside the squared circle on February 22, 2014 at Ice Arena, Hull, England against Gavin McDonnel for the vacant super-bantamweight title. He was knocked out by McDonnel in the sixth round of the fight which comprised twelve total rounds. Wood has a professional record of 27 wins, 3 losses.
He has knocked out 16 of his opponents and secured decision victories over 11 others. Wood suffered three losses which include two via knockout and one by decision. BoxRec ranks him as the world’s second best active-featherweight, The Ring magazine ranks him as the sixth while Transnational Boxing Rankings ranks him seventh.
Who is Leigh Wood’s Girlfriend?
Leigh Wood is single by what is known about his personal life, he does not have a girlfriend and neither is he in a romantic relationship with anyone. Wood is tight-lipped about his personal life and seldom posts anything about it in the public domain.
Leigh Wood Kids
Leigh Wood has two kids, a daughter and a son. He is a single parent of an eight-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. Wood constantly posts pictures of his kids on his social media accounts and expresses their significance in his life by speaking about it. There are no traces of him being married in the past and he certainly doesn’t seem to be in a relationship. He raises his children as a single parent.
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FAQs
A. No, he is not married.
A. No, he is most probably single as of now.
A. Yes, he has kids.
A. He has a daughter and a son.
A. His daughter is the elder child among his two kids.
