Leigh Wood is finally ready to return to the ring - and he's doing so with a new promoter.

Wood (28-3, 17 KOs), the former WBA junior-lightweight champion, hasn't been in the ring since a stoppage victory over Josh Warrington (31-4-1, 8 KOs) in October 2023.

After that fight, Wood went in search of a big stadium fight at Nottingham Forest FC's City Ground, but his promoters Matchroom were unable to find a suitable date or opponent for a summer 2024 showdown.

As a result, with a break clause in his contract with Eddie Hearn, Wood amicably ended his partnership with Matchroom. Since then, however, the winner of The Ring's Knockout of the Year for 2022, has been sitting on the sidelines, waiting by the phone.

But now he's back, and he'll be fighting on DAZN once again as he moves up to junior-lightweight to challenge Northern Irishman Anthony Cacace (23-1, 8KOs) for his IBO belt.

Cacace first won a world title at 130 pounds last May, capturing the IBF title from Joe Cordina (17-1, 9 KOs) in an upset eighth-round TKO victory on the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undercard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

He then beat a faded Warrington at Wembley on the Anthony Joshua-Daniel Dubois bill.

Cacace has since vacated his belt in order to face Wood, with a more dangerous fight against mandatory challenger Eduardo 'Sugar' Nunez (27-1, 27 KOs) waiting in the wings.

Cacace-Wood represents what should be an all-action fight and the most lucrative option out there for both men at the moment.

Also on the card is Wood's fellow Nottingham native Ezra Taylor (10-0, 7 KOs), who competes at light-heavyweight.

Elsewhere on DAZN's spring schedule of fights is a headlining bout between Joe Joyce (16-3, 15 KOs) and Dillian Whyte (31-3, 28KOs) on April 5th at Manchester's Co-Op Live Arena.

Josh Taylor (19-2, 13 KOs) has also signed with Queensberry and will make his debut at welterweight against Ekow Essuman (21-1, 8 KOs) on a May date yet to be determined in Glasgow.

“We’ve assembled a bumper lineup of cracking fights to celebrate the start of our relationship with DAZN,” Frank Warren.

“We are starting as we mean to go on and, as you might expect, the heavyweights will play a big, big part in 2025 and beyond. Then Nottingham is the place to be the following month for a real banger of a fight between Anto Cacace and Leigh Wood. It is the sort of domestic blockbuster we will be seeing plenty of across the partnership between Queensberry and DAZN.

"I am also so much looking forward to returning to Scotland with the nation’s biggest star and our latest signing, Josh Taylor, headlining and rebooting his career at welterweight, where I believe he can again do big things, but he will be up against it with Ekow Essuman in the opposite corner.”