Sunday, October 6, 2024

Warren Planning Liverpool Homecoming Combat For WBA Featherweight Champ Nick Ball

Some of the persistently thrilling and nice value-for-money fighters on the market proper now, WBA featherweight champ Nick Ball shall be headlining a homecoming card in Liverpool quickly, says his promoter Frank Warren. The undefeated Ball received a call over Raymond Ford to take the WBA belt at 126 kilos earlier this 12 months, the combat part of the ‘5 Vs. 5’ between Queensbury fighters and Matchroom fighters. Earlier than that combat, 27-year-old Ball was unfortunate to not have received the WBC title in his problem of Rey Vargas; the combat scored a controversial draw.

Ball ought to have two belts round his waist now, not only one. In any case, Warren mentioned on his YouTube channel that Ball would make the primary protection of his WBA belt in opposition to TBA, the deliberate stacked Liverpool card set to be introduced quickly.

“There are a variety of good featherweights on the market and there are a variety of good fights to be made between all of them,” Warren mentioned. “That’s the enterprise we’re in, making high quality fights, and all of those guys are high quality fighters, and all are at completely different ranges and completely different levels of their careers. Inevitably, they are going to need to combat for world titles, little question about that. Nick’s going to be in motion, he’s going to defend his world title up in Liverpool. There’s a lot occurring, we shall be [announcing soon]. They [Liverpool] have gotten one [a hero], they’ve received just a few. I’m trying ahead to the present up there.”

It will likely be fascinating to see who Ball fights in his maiden WBA title protection. A rematch with Ford is feasible, although Ford blamed the loss to Ball largely on making 126 kilos, with him stating he shall be going as much as 130. However Ball has proven he’ll combat anyone, and he’s arguably one of the best featherweight on the planet proper now. The opposite champions are Vargas, WBC, Angelo Leo, IBF, Rafael Espinoza, and WBO, whereas Brandon Figueroa is the present WBC interim champion.

Both of those rival champions would make an awesome, nice combat for Ball. Let’s see who Warren matches his pocket rocket, an absolute dynamo of a fighter inside his hometown of Liverpool. Can Ball, 20-0-1(11), turn into the undisputed champion at 126 kilos?

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