Woods left to consider his options

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Woods delivered a painfully honest self-assessment after a desperately disappointing performance which saw him lose his IBF 175lbs title by a wide unanimous decision to home favourite Antonio Tarver.

Woods, clutching an ice pack to his badly cut lip in a disconsolate dressing room afterwards, said: "I don't know if I froze on the big occasion. On the night, I didn't perform like I could have done really. I could have done much better than that."

He added: "All I want to do now is go home and see my family. I don't want to make a decision about my future now. But I've still achieved more than I ever thought I would achieve in my career."

Even Doncaster judge Howard Foster felt able to give Woods just one round in his 119-109 verdict - while the other two officials were slightly more generous in scoring 116-112, 117-111 for the defending champion.

But the most galling thing for Woods was that 39-year-old Tarver seemed ripe for the taking and could easily have provided the Sheffield man with the crowning moment of his heroic and improbably successful career.