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Naoya Inoue posted a message to WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball after his win over TJ Doheny, telling him that they each have to “increase” their “value” earlier than they meet for a battle.
The Unlawful Kick
The Japanese famous person ‘Monster’ Inoue 29-0, 26 KOs) added that he solely wants “two fists” for him to defeat Ball (22-0-1, 13 KOs). This was probably a jab on the 5’2″ mini-cannon Ball’s resolution to kick the 38-year-old TJ Doheny (26-6, 20 to the canvas within the first spherical after he briefly had him in a headlock.
The referee ought to have instantly disqualified Ball for kicking TJ Doheny as a result of that’s uncalled for in boxing. What made it worse is Doheny went down on the canvas and was clearly harm. He stayed down for a very long time earlier than getting again up.
Wrestling Techniques
The kicking was simply a part of the roughhouse ways that Nick Ball used within the battle. He additionally threw Doheny to the canvas twice, utilizing skilled wrestling strikes that will have made any WWE wrestler proud.
The referee lastly took some extent off from Ball for the primary physique slam, however he ought to have DQ’d him as a result of that was method overboard.
Ball claims that he kicked TJ as a result of he stored holding him in a headlock after the referee known as for them to interrupt, but it surely didn’t look that method. Doheny’s headlock was only a momentary factor. It appeared that the TRUE cause Ball kicked him as a result of the previous man was education him all through the primary spherical, and continued to take action in rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Doheny’s Dominance
Nick appeared annoyed and offended that he was consuming straight lefts from Doheny and being dominated by a man that was alleged to be over-the-hill. The talents that he confirmed within the battle had been far above what Ball had, and one might inform that if TJ had been youthful, he’d have been an excessive amount of for him. Ball was uncovered by the previous man, and made to look overrated.
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“I did what I had to do to get the job done,” stated Nick Ball to iFL TV about his win over the 38-year-old TJ Doheny final Saturday evening in Liverpool. “After the bell, he had me in a headlock and he stored holding me after the ref stated ‘break,’ and he stored holding me. I kneed him within the leg. I in all probability shouldn’t have completed it as a result of it might have been worse. It’s one thing to be taught from and never get entangled in.
“I’m not just going to wait around for him [Naoya Inoue] to come up and fight me. I want to keep doing what I do, which is fighting, staying busy and getting the titles. I feel I should have the WBC, green and gold belt [held by featherweight champion Stephen Fulton]. That’s the one I’d like to fight for in the meantime. If he does move up, I’ll be waiting for him,” stated Ball about Inoue.
