Career
He currently fights in the Featherweight division. Leigh has lived in the Nottinghamshire borough of Gedling for all his life and regularly travels to Ingles Gym in Sheffield to train. Wood put on an impressive performance and was in control of the fight after winning the first 5 rounds, but prior to the fight Wood had to lose weight for himself to make the weight for the fight and after a few rounds Wood was becoming tired.
After the loss to McDonnell, Wood had a comeback fight against Martin Mubiru and put in good performance and earned a 3rd round TKO.
