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WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball weighed in at 125.9 lbs and challenger TJ Doheny got here in at 126 after weighing in initially at 126.1 at Friday’s weigh-in for his or her 12-round headliner this Saturday, March fifteenth on the M&S Financial institution Area in Liverpool, England.
(Credit score: Queensberry)
Fulton Goal
Ball (21-0-1, 12 KOs) admits that the collection of 38-year-old TJ Doheny (26-5, 20 KOs) wasn’t his alternative of opponent, however he leaves it as much as his supervisor and promoter to pick out who he fights. He’s taken numerous criticism for preventing this older fighter, who’s coming off a knockout loss to Naoya Inoue final September.
If that’s how Ball, 28, is matched by his promoter, he might maintain onto his WBA belt without end. Nevertheless, Nick says he hopes to combat a unification subsequent, and the man he desires is WBC champ, Stephen Fulton, who lately captured the belt from Brandon Figueroa final month.
Weigh-In Outcomes
Nick Ball – 125.9TJ Doheny – 126Jadier Herrera – 134.9Jose Macias Enriquez – 134.2
Of all of the fighters on Saturday’s undercard, the true expertise to keep watch over is Cuban light-weight contender Jadier Herrera (16-0, 14 KOs). He’s the perfect of the bunch by far and will quickly be getting a world title shot if he’s not averted like we noticed final month with WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson swerving him in favor of preventing Josh Padley on the February twenty second occasion in Riyadh.
Herrera is preventing Jose Macias Enriquez (21-3-2, 8 KOs) in a 10-round scheduled combat. Don’t blink. Herrera will possible obliterate this man inside two or three rounds.
Passive Path
“Not really. I don’t look into that,” stated Nick Ball to iFL TV when requested if TJ Doheny was his alternative of opponent. I simply give attention to my coaching. My supervisor and promoter, Frank, they type all that. I’m simply prepared for anybody and whoever it’s on combat evening, I combat them,” stated Ball, revealing that he takes a passive, non-assertive strategy to the selecting of his opponents.
“I expect a tough fight. I feel like saying, ‘Come back to me when he’s at my weight,’ because he’s still at super bantam. When he’s at my weight, come back to me, I’ll be waiting for him,” stated Ball concerning the fixed questions he will get about undisputed tremendous bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue, anticipated to focus on him when he strikes as much as 126.
“There could be a fight in between that [Inoue moving up to face Ball], and hopefully, that can be a unification. That would be good, and then later in the year, we’ll see if that fight happens. Overall, the main path is Saturday night. That belt [WBC] is my belt and I’m coming for that belt [currently held by Stephen Fulton]. That’s going to be mine. Hopefully, one day I can fight for it and get it back because I should have it,” stated Ball.
