{"id":339550,"date":"2025-12-12T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339550\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:13:10","slug":"nick-ball-liverpudlian-to-fight-brandon-figueroa-in-fourth-wba-featherweight-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339550\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Ball: Liverpudlian to fight Brandon Figueroa in fourth WBA featherweight title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Nick Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title against mandatory challenger Brandon Figueroa in his home city of Liverpool on Saturday, 7 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout against the American will be Ball&#8217;s fourth defence of the belt he won by beating Raymond Ford in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ball&#8217;s most recent fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy0qp25p07zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was a unanimous points win<\/a> against Australian Sam Goodman which extended his undefeated run to 23 wins and one draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figueroa, aged 28 like Ball, is a former two-weight world champion with 26 wins, two defeats and a draw in his professional career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are so proud of Nick and what he has accomplished and this is a glamour fight, against a recognised American talent, that he fully deserves to have in his home city,&#8221; said promoter Frank Warren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Figueroa represents a genuine threat, but we believe Nick has the beating of everyone in the division and he will prove this over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#8217;s Nick Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title against mandatory challenger Brandon Figueroa in his home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-339550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}