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WBA super-featherweight champion Anthony Cacace is not prepared to allow suggestions of a showdown with Vasiliy Lomachenko distract him as he prepares to take on Nick Ball.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 37-year-old makes his maiden defence of the title against Liverpool’s former WBA featherweight champion Ball at the recently renamed O2 Belfast on Saturday, 19 December.<\/p>\n
The WBA has already indicated the winner must face Russia’s Elnur Samedov<\/a> next, but the returning Lomachenko is reported to be keen too, according to ESPN’s Brian Custer., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Should that come to pass, it would represent the realisation of a dream for Cacace, but his immediate gaze remains firmly fixed on Ball.<\/p>\n “I’m not really thinking about that just now, I just kind of want to focus fully on Nick Ball and this fight coming up,” he insisted.<\/p>\n “I woke up to them type of things [Lomachenko interest] going to myself, ‘what?’. To see that type of stuff blows my mind but it’s one of those things and I’m just super grateful for it all.<\/p>\n “I remember putting a tweet out in 2012 calling out Lomachenko, so if that fight ever materialises, I’ll get that tweet sorted.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n