{"id":5357,"date":"2024-10-04T19:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-ball-vs-ronny-rios-liverpools-world-champion-makes-weight-for-saturdays-title-defence\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:53:31","slug":"nick-ball-vs-ronny-rios-liverpools-world-champion-makes-weight-for-saturdays-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-ball-vs-ronny-rios-liverpools-world-champion-makes-weight-for-saturdays-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Ball vs Ronny Rios: Liverpool’s world champion makes weight for Saturday’s title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World champion Nick Ball and challenger Ronny Rios both successfully made weight for Saturday’s WBA featherweight title contest in Liverpool.<\/b><\/p>\n

Ball, 27, will defend his belt in front of a home crowd at the M&S Bank Arena.<\/p>\n

He tipped the scales at 8st 13lb, with American Rios just a fraction heavier at 9st.<\/p>\n

The BBC will bring you radio commentary and live text commentary from 20:00 BST on Radio 5 Sports Extra, before switching to Radio 5 Live at 22:00.<\/p>\n

Friday’s weigh-in kept up the theme of a respectful and low-key fight week.<\/p>\n

Rios, 34, was first to look away after the obligatory face-off before Ball darted off the stage without a handshake.<\/p>\n

Ball – who lives a stone’s throw away from the fight venue – will compete in his home city for the first time since February 2020.<\/p>\n

He won his maiden world title with a close points victory over Raymond Ford in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only blemish on Ball’s record is a controversial draw against WBC title holder Rey Vargas in March<\/a>, a fight many thought the Briton clearly won.<\/p>\n

Rios has lost four times in 38 bouts, but has competed just twice since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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World champion Nick Ball and challenger Ronny Rios both successfully made weight for Saturday’s WBA featherweight title contest in Liverpool. Ball, 27, will defend his belt in front of a home crowd at the M&S Bank Arena. He tipped the scales at 8st 13lb, with American Rios just a fraction heavier at 9st. The BBC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}