Thanks for the input
From what I saw of the 1st fight, I thought Johnson outworked Woods but got scewwed by the judges. Johnson convincingly beat Woods in the second fight but only won by 115-113 on two of the judges scorecards, thats only 1 round from being a majority draw. I believe you when you say that Britain is fairer than most Euro countries but I still think the homefield advantage for Woods will play a big role in any of his fights.
IMO a homefield advantage doesn't mean the fight is fixed or that the judges are bias or incompetant. When you have 95% of the crowd cheering for one fighter, a judge can easily be swayed by the oohs and aahs that come everytime the hometown guy throws a punch.
I've seen Woods fight a few times and I'm not real impressed either but he claims he has made some dietary and training changes that will show up in this fight. That may or may not be worth considering, but one thing I know for sure is that Woods can't lose this fight if he expects to be taken seriously in the future.
Just two years ago DeLisle lost an eight round maj decision to Paul Smallman who is now 24-26-2 and has lost 10 of his last 13 fights since then. To DeLisle's credit he avenged the loss with a 11th round tko but Smallman has been stopped 4 times in the first 4 rounds since then so that wasn't a big accomplishment and that tells you how much power DeLisle has...none. Last year DeLisle was ko'd in the 5th round by fellow Aussy Danny Green, but Woods at 175 doesn't have neer the power of Green at 168 so you can't make much out of that loss.
DeLisle is 15-2-2, is 32 years old (like Woods), and is giving up 3 inches in height. He has never fought outside of Austrailia. I have already shown his losses, now lets look at some of his close calls...
12 round SPLIT decision in over Peter Manesis who was 6-0 at the time.
6 round DRAW and a 6 round SPLIT decision over Peter Ngateri who is now 9-6-2. DeLisle later won a CLOSE 12 round UD over Ngateri.
DeLisle has won 2 of his last 3 on opponent cuts stopping the fight, and he doesn't have one impressive win on his resume.
I'm considering playing Woods and the over as I don't see DeLisle having enough power to stop Woods who has a very good chin.
