{"id":257114,"date":"2026-01-25T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:33:08","slug":"bruce-carrington-favors-nick-ball-in-fan-friendly-firefight-with-brandon-figueroa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257114\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Carrington Favors Nick Ball In \u2018Fan-Friendly Firefight\u2019 With Brandon Figueroa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once Bruce Carrington faces Carlos Castro<\/a>, he\u2019ll turn his attention to another featherweight title fight a week later.
The unbeaten WBC interim 126-pound champ expects WBA titleholder Nick Ball<\/a> to emerge victorious from his mandated defense against American Brandon Figueroa<\/a> on February 7 at M&S Bank Arena in Ball\u2019s hometown of Liverpool, England. It won\u2019t be easy for the unbeaten Ball (23-0-1, 13 KOs), a champ Carrington called out on numerous occasions, but Brooklyn\u2019s Carrington figures Figueroa\u2019s defensive flaws will enable Ball to leave the ring with his title.
\u201cI think that Nick Ball will win the fight,\u201d Carrington told The Ring<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a firefight, though. Stylistically, it\u2019s very fan friendly. Both of them guys, they like to put pressure, they\u2019re very physical, but I think that Brandon Figueroa\u2019s defense is what\u2019s gonna be the reason he might lose this fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe kinda throws a few rounds away because he gets hit with big shots and judges, it catches their eyes and they start to think, \u2018Like, OK, maybe this guy won this round. He throws a lotta punches, but he got caught with a lotta shots.\u2019 So, I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why Nick Ball may win this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Figueroa (26-2-1, 19 KOs), of Weslaco, Texas, has lost only a pair of 12-round decisions to former junior featherweight and featherweight champ Stephen Fulton (23-2, 8 KOs). He bounced back from his second loss to Fulton 11 months ago, a more decisive defeat than he suffered in their first fight, by unanimously out-pointing longtime contender Joet Gonzalez<\/a> (27-5, 15 KOs) on July 19 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Figueroa will encounter a hostile crowd, however, in his first fight outside of the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in [Ball\u2019s] hometown, they\u2019re fighting for his belt, he has all the advantages,\u201d Carrington said. \u201cSo, even if it is a close fight, things could happen. You know how the game goes. So, yeah, I feel like Brandon Figueroa needs to go for a stoppage if he\u2019s gonna take that belt, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

DraftKings lists Ball as almost a 4-1 favorite to defeat Figueroa, a former WBC featherweight and WBA\/WBC junior featherweight champ, in a 12-round main event DAZN will stream globally.<\/p>\n

Carrington (16-0, 9 KOs) is an even bigger favorite, 9-1, to conquer Castro (30-3, 14 KOs) in their fight for the vacant WBC featherweight title last held by Fulton. Carrington-Castro is part of \u201cThe Ring 6<\/a>\u201d pay-per-view show January 31 at Madison Square Garden in New York.\u201cThe Ring 6\u201d is available for $69.99 in the United States and \u00a324.99 in the United Kingdom. The card headlined by Lopez-Stevenson is included in DAZN<\/a>\u2019s Ultimate monthly plan for subscribers ($44.99 in the U.S.; \u00a324.99 in the UK).
Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once Bruce Carrington faces Carlos Castro, he\u2019ll turn his attention to another featherweight title fight a week later.The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2225,15210,15203,15209,15208,15201,15200,15204,15205,15206,15207,15202,15215,15214,2025,15195,15196,85,46,15212,15197,15194,15216,15211,105,15213,15193,15199,15198],"class_list":["post-257114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}