Mauricio Lara v Leigh Wood: Mexican misses weight for world title defence

Britain's Leigh Wood is acceptable to combat for the vacant rubric connected Saturday

Mauricio Lara is acceptable to beryllium stripped of his WBA featherweight loop aft failing to marque the 9 chromatic bounds for his rubric combat against Leigh Wood.

Wood made the bounds for Saturday's bout successful Manchester and is eligible to triumph the rubric he mislaid to Lara successful February.

The Englishman was stopped successful the circular 7 of their archetypal fight.

After a value cheque connected Wednesday, the Board raised concerns astir however dense the champion was and did not privation Lara cutting value beneath 9st 2.5lb.

Meanwhile, Terri Harper's hastily re-arranged satellite rubric defence is connected track, aft England's WBA light-middleweight champion made value for her combat against Croatia's Ivana Habazin.

Harper fights connected the undercard successful Manchester, with Jack Catterall's light-welterweight contention against Darragh Foley the main support.

Wood is not the lone Briton successful satellite rubric enactment this weekend, with Lawrence Okolie and Chris Billam-Smith besides warring successful Bournemouth.

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Bournemouth section Billam-Smith challenges Londoner Okolie for the WBO cruiserweight rubric astatine the Vitality Stadium and determination was nary specified value play connected a sun-drenched Bournemouth Pier.

The erstwhile sparring partners weighed the aforesaid astatine 14st 3lbs.

In Belfast, Northern Ireland's Michael Conlan volition weigh-in for his satellite rubric tilt against IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez connected Friday evening.