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After three failed world title attempts, Britain’s Clinton Woods looked destined to be just another in a staggeringly long line of nearly men churned out by the sport over the last century. He was set to join the likes of Jerry Quarry, Bennie Briscoe and fellow Brit Herol Graham; perennial contenders who spent their careers toiling fruitlessly on the cusp of world championship glory until finally retiring as the embodiment of the trite saying, ‘so near, yet so far.’ In the aftermath of Woods’ punishing point’s loss to Glencoffe Johnson for the vacant IBF light heavyweight trinket in February of last year (in what was his third opportunity to claim a portion of the crown), the underlying feeling was that the former steel worker from Sheffield was consigned to a similar fate. [details]