Nick Ball Will defend his WBA featherweight title in opposition to the lately knocked-out non-contender TJ Doheny on March fifteenth on the M&S Financial institution Area in Liverpool, England. It’s unclear how the WBA would enable this mismatch to happen as a result of Doheny isn’t ranked within the prime 15 and is coming off a knockout loss.
Ball (21-0-1, 20 KOs) thinks it’s an amazing thought to defend his title in opposition to the 38-year-old Doheny (26-5, 20 KOs) as a result of it helps arrange a combat between him and Naoya Inoue when he strikes as much as 126. Inoue stopped the previous veteran Doheny within the seventh spherical on September third.
Ball’s Rationale for the Doheny Combat
Doheny has a 5-5 report in his final ten fights since 2019. From a commonsense standpoint, it appears unhealthy for Ball to defend his WBA 126-lb title in opposition to an older fighter who’s unranked within the prime 15 by any of the 4 sanctioning our bodies and coming off a knockout loss to Inoue.
I don’t see how Ball is popping out forward by selecting Doheny to first rate his belt in opposition to slightly than one of many top-rung contenders.
If the purpose is to impress followers, Ball is lacking the mark by choosing an older fighter coming off a knockout loss. Doheny’s choice appears weak and pathetic. The followers weren’t born yesterday. They’ll word Doheny’s superior age, current knockout loss, and poor report.
“No matter combat I’m in, persons are going to look at it due to how I come and my model. I’m certain it’ll be a very good combat,” mentioned Nick Ball to Secondsout, speaking his subsequent title protection in opposition to 38-year-old lately knocked out journeyman TJ Doheny on March fifteenth.
“He’s been in with Inoue, and so they’re speaking about me vs. Inoue. Simply placing us all in collectively. In search of how he bought on with him [Doheny] and the way I bought on with him. It makes, and even larger combat between me and Inoue, which everybody’s talking about.
“That is smart actually. It could be good to get it carried out faster,” mentioned Ball about eager to knock out the veteran Doheny sooner than Inoue did together with his current seventh-round KO win on September third.
I’m questioning why the interviewer tossed nothing however softball inquiries to Nick Ball. If it had been me, I’d have been placing him underneath the sunshine for his choice of Doheny slightly than one of many killers at 126.
It could look a lot better if Nick Ball fought a unification in opposition to WBO featherweight champion Rafael Espinoza. That may require that Ball threat dropping out on a combat with Inoue if he had been crushed, however at the least he’d be preventing a top quality man as a substitute of a journeyman. He’s not going to impress anybody preventing Doheny. Does he suppose Inoue is silly? If Ball lacks the braveness to combat the likes of Espinoza, Angelo Leo, or Bruce Carrington, he doesn’t price a combat in opposition to Inoue.
Higher Choices For Nick Ball
– Rafael Espinoza
– Angelo Leo
– Rey Vargas
– Bruce Carrington
– Otabek Kholmatov
– Edward Vazquez
