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Yeah in CW he got his nose broke by Philpott and Reed tagged him a bunch early in their fight. Philpott is a young journeyman of the Euro scene and Reed was an undefeated prospect at the time. Wood is a young prospect though and he's better now than he was in those fights, especially the Philpott fight.Under's the spot in that one, undoubtedly. Wood's got that whole 'Complete defensive liability' thing going on, though. Got outclassed badly by Eduardo on the feet before pulling out an odd choke, and Wood got hurt by nobodies in CW a lot of the time.
Wood's probably the better fighter, but it's hard to trust his style against somebody with legitimate power and a reach advantage. I've got a huge Thomas Almeida vibe from Wood.
Eduardo hurt Wood with some shots in the 1st but Wood kept his composure and landed quite a lot himself, fight metric will back that up too. I don't really think Eduardo is on another level as a striker, I just think he's an explosive athlete that is dangerous early and he happened to land something significant and follow up. Even if Wood didn't get the d'arce, I think his pace would have overwhelmed Eduardo. Eduardo wasn't liking the striking in the 2nd, thats probably why he shot.
Yes I am defensive of Wood, sure he's got his flaws but at the end of the day who the f*ck is Andre Ewell. At least Wood was beating half decent regional fighters with good records. All Ewell fought on the regional was bums and Barao is a bum too. We've never seen Ewell vs an athlete or striker like Wood. Ewell defense gonna be looking suspect.
I think it's pretty insulting to Wood that he's pretty much a pick'em against some nobody like Ewell. Beating 2018 Barao means nothing, he's so bad, Barao would get whooped in the LFA at this point.