Sean Woodson Has A Chip On His Shoulder

Sean Woodson Knows He Needs To Speak Up And Continue Winning To Get His Shot At A Top-15 Fight Sooner Than Later

By Thomas Gerbasi, On X @TGerbasi • Dec. 13, 2024

Sometimes you can believe what you read on the internet. As a skeptic from birth, I couldn’t trust that the story on Sean Woodson’s Wikipedia page that it was a doctor who convinced his mother to let him put some gloves on and fight was true.

But it is.

“I was pestering her and annoying her a bunch for a couple years to box,” recalls Woodson, who faces Fernando Padilla this Saturday in Tampa. “I wanted to box and she was against it and saying it was real bad for me. We were at the pediatrician for a normal school checkup and she just…