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Liverpool’s featherweight world champion Nick Ball will defend his WBA title in his home city against TJ Doheny on Saturday, 15 March, at the M&S Bank Arena. <\/b><\/p>\n
The 27-year-old beat Ronny Rios in October and makes a second defence of his belt he won against Raymond Ford in Saudi Arabia last year.<\/p>\n
Doheny, 38, is a former IBF super-bantamweight champion.<\/p>\n
The Irishman has won 26 fights and lost five, including a seventh-round stoppage defeat to undisputed super-bantamweight title-holder Naoya Inoue in September. <\/p>\n
“Nick Ball, the best featherweight in the world, gets to fight in his home city for the second time as world champion and he is up against a fighter of huge pedigree in TJ Doheny,” said Queensberry’s Frank Warren, who promotes Ball.<\/p>\n
‘Wrecking Ball’, who made his debut in a Liverpool nightclub in 2017, has his eyes set on a future fight with Japan’s pound-for-pound star Inoue. <\/p>\n
Ball is undefeated in 22 fights, winning 12 inside the distance, and gets the chance to compete in his home city of Liverpool for the second successive time.<\/p>\n
It will be Ball’s fourth consecutive title bout after a draw with WBC featherweight champion Rey Vargas in March, before beating Ford three months later and then defending in Liverpool against American Rios.<\/p>\n
Bantamweight Andrew Cain will also fight on home soil in an all-British bout against Londoner, and former world champion, Charlie Edwards.<\/p>\n
And a third Liverpudlian Brad Strand will be on the undercard as he faces Romania’s Ionut Baluta for the vacant WBO European super-bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n