Liverpool’s featherweight world champion Nick Ball will defend his WBA title in his residence metropolis towards TJ Doheny on Saturday, 15 March, on the M&S Financial institution Area.
The 27-year-old beat Ronny Rios in October and makes a second defence of his belt he gained towards Raymond Ford in Saudi Arabia final yr.
Doheny, 38, is a former IBF super-bantamweight champion.
The Irishman has gained 26 fights and misplaced 5, together with a seventh-round stoppage defeat to undisputed super-bantamweight title-holder Naoya Inoue in September.
“Nick Ball, the very best featherweight on this planet, will get to combat in his residence metropolis for the second time as world champion and he’s up towards a fighter of big pedigree in TJ Doheny,” mentioned Queensberry’s Frank Warren, who promotes Ball.
‘Wrecking Ball’, who made his debut in a Liverpool nightclub in 2017, has his eyes set on a future combat with Japan’s pound-for-pound star Inoue.
Ball is undefeated in 22 fights, successful 12 inside the gap, and will get the possibility to compete in his residence metropolis of Liverpool for the second successive time.
It is going to be Ball’s fourth consecutive title bout after a draw with WBC featherweight champion Rey Vargas in March, earlier than beating Ford three months later after which defending in Liverpool towards American Rios.
Bantamweight Andrew Cain may even combat on residence soil in an all-British bout towards Londoner, and former world champion, Charlie Edwards.
And a 3rd Liverpudlian Brad Strand will likely be on the undercard as he faces Romania’s Ionut Baluta for the vacant WBO European super-bantamweight title.
