Liverpool’s Nick Ball, one of the constantly lively in addition to one of the constantly thrilling fighters on the market at this time, will make the second protection of his WBA featherweight title on March twenty fifth when he’ll face former IBF super-bantamweight champ TJ Doheny, the combat to happen at The Echo Area in Ball’s dwelling city.
Followers will recall the final time they noticed 38-year-old Doheny in motion when the gutsy Irishman was stopped in painful vogue by “Monster” Naoya Inoue in September. Inoue actually hit Doheny so laborious to the midsection that the pressure broken the crushed fighter’s again.
Now, some followers will probably be asking how Doheny will get rewarded for dropping a 122-pound world title shot by getting a shot at a 126-pound belt in his very subsequent combat. Definitely, pretty much as good as he’s, Ball may maybe have taken a stiffer check in March, a extra significant combat. We followers who love seeing Ball rumble wish to see him get unification fights at 126 kilos. Perhaps these will come later subsequent yr. For positive, Doheny doesn’t determine to derail Ball.
Ball, approaching his prime at age 27, appears to have nearly each doable benefit towards Doheny, 26-5(20). Ball is manner youthful, he’s the pure featherweight, he’s preventing at dwelling, and Ball’s fashion of setting a ridiculous tempo appears to be like set to be an excessive amount of for the older man. Additionally, Doheny, a southpaw, will probably be returning to motion after the Inoue mauling with out the help of a tune-up. This one appears to be like like being a Nick Ball showcase.
Search for Ball to come back proper out of the blocks, throwing venomous punches in bunches as he all the time does. Doheny may show the doubters incorrect, however the considering right here is the veteran will be unable to deal with Ball’s mix of velocity, continuous punching, and sheer, aggressive tendencies.
To this point in his professional profession, solely Inoue has managed to cease Doheny. This will effectively change come March twenty fifth.
