From Michael Conlan’s vantagepoint, Jack Catterall clearly beat Josh Taylor on February 26 in Glasgow.

As much as Conlan feels for Catterall, who lost a split decision to the undefeated, fully unified 140-pound champion in Taylor’s home country of Scotland, the Irish contender considers the controversy caused by the official result of their bout to be beneficial to him as he prepares to enter the ring in a defending champion’s hometown Saturday night.

With the boxing world paying closer attention than usual to the judging of fights in the United Kingdom, Belfast’s Conlan is confident that he’ll be treated fairly if his 12-round, 126-pound title fight against Leigh Wood reaches the scorecards at Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England.

The British Boxing Board of Control has assigned England’s Bob Williams, Panama’s Guillermo Perez Pineda and Poland’s Leszek Jankowiak to judge Wood-Conlan. Their referee will be England’s Steve Gray.

“I’m not worried about it, simply because of the fact that happened [recently],” Conlan told BoxingScene.com in reference to the Taylor-Catterall controversy. “The eyes of the world are on the UK, where bad judging seems to be happening, at the minute. So, it would be very hard for it to happen again. So, I’m not too bothered by it. But that is out of my control. I control what I can control, and that is myself and my opponent, and that’s what I’ll do exactly.”

The British Boxing Board of Control announced Thursday that its officiating status of England’s Ian John-Lewis has been downgraded from “A-star” to “A” class as punishment for the suspect scorecard he submitted for the Taylor-Catterall fight. Lewis works as a judge and a referee in the UK.

Lewis scored eight of 12 rounds for Scotland’s Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs), who won 114-111 on his card in part because he had a point deducted for the knockdown Catterall scored early in the eighth round. Taylor lost another point for hitting Catterall after the bell to conclude the 11th round.

Scotland’s Victor Loughlin scored seven rounds for Taylor, who won 113-112 on his card. Another judge from England, Howard Foster, scored their fight 113-112 for Catterall (26-1, 13 KOs).

England’s Catterall was the WBO’s mandatory challenger for one of Taylor’s four titles. It appears unlikely that Taylor will grant Catterall a rematch of what, at the very least, was an extremely competitive bout.

Conlan, meanwhile, is known for directing his middle finger at the judges following his highly controversial loss to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

“This is the first DAZN show in the UK since [Taylor-Catterall] happened,” Conlan said. “I think there’s been a lot of talk about it the last few weeks, since it happened. That actually benefits me. It’s unfortunate for Jack Catterall, who I believe won by four or five rounds. But it’s to my benefit and this game, it’s a selfish game. I’m selfishly happy in a sense, but I’m still disappointed for him.”

Caesars Sportsbook has installed the 30-year-old Conlan (16-0, 8 KOs) as nearly a 2-1 favorite to defeat the 33-year-old Wood (25-2, 15 KOs). Their fight will headline a DAZN stream set to start at 7 p.m. GMT and 2 p.m. ET.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.