Nick Ball is affected by fans over the coals because he has chosen Super Bantamweight contender Sam Goodman as his next challenger for him to defend his WBA featherweight title on August 16 on Dazn PPV.
Sam goodman fight backlash
Ball (22-0-1, 13 COs) is by some fans as the worst type champion Since winning the WBA 126 pounds in June 2024 with a win over Raymond Ford.
Since winning the WBA belt, Ball has defended against consecutive 122-pound against TJ Doheny and Ronny Rios. Now he chooses another superbantam weight, Sam Goodman 20-0, 8 food), to defend its WBA springweight belt.
Turki Alalshikh Should Nick Ball have notified that he had to fight for his 16th card in Riyadh, he had to fight one of the highly arranged, respected fighters from the featherweight division, not another fighter from the Super Bantamweight division.
Ideal choices:
- Bruce Carrington
- Otabek kholmatov
- Angelo Leo
Avoid the top featherweight contenders?
Some fans believe Ball deliberately fights against a poor opposition chosen from the 122-pound division to hold on to his WBA springweight belt long enough to get a fight against the Japanese star Naoya inoue If he moves to the division of 126 pounds in a year or two.
The fight against fewer fighters such as 38-year-old TJ Doheny, Goodman with a poor punch and 34-year-old Rios ensures that the ball will hold his WBA title until inoue goes up for that big payday.
“If he wants a shot, he has to be careful about how he goes with it because he can’t get the shot,” Nick Ball says for the ring Magazine channeland respond to the #2-selected WBA contender Bruce Carrington and says his team has already made an offer to fight against him and not hear back.
Milk the WBA title
Ball essentially says he will use Carrington’s talk as a reason to prevent him from fighting against him, which is bad on his part. Nick has skipped Bruce in the title defense he has made since winning the WBA belt. So far, the two defense of Ball has come against these fighters:
- TJ Doheny: A 38-year-old man who was drawn from the Super Bantamweight (122-pound) division to be used as his challenger.
- Ronny Rios: Another fighter who recently moved from 122 to the featherweight division. He was not considered worthy to fight for the WBA world title against Ball. The choice of Rios was seen as another way for Nick to extend his time as the champion by milking it.
“Everyone talks about it, everyone wants it to happen,” Ball said of a fight between him and Naoya Inoue. “I’ll fight with someone. It will be an exciting one if it happens.
Last updated on 08/01/2025
