Nick Ball next world title defence confirmed as Frank Warren delivers on Liverpool promise

Frank Warren believes he has delivered on his promise of re-establishing Liverpool as a premier destination for the best of boxing after he confirmed Nick Ball’s next world title defence. Ball will make a second defence of his WBA world featherweight title against former world champion TJ Doheny at the M&S Bank Arena on Saturday, March 15.

The card will be co-headlined by British and Commonwealth bantamweight champion Andrew Cain going up against European champion Charlie Edwards. In further major championship action, Brad Strand will take on Ionut Baluta for the vacant WBO European super bantamweight title, while Jack Turner will also feature on the bill.

And Queensberry chief Warren said: “This card is literally combustible! There is so much at stake in all the championship fights, and every one of them has got all the makings of a cracker.

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“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, a former world champion who fought the great Nayoya Inoue over in Japan in September.

“Andrew Cain against Charlie Edwards is the perfect match to make. The British and Commonwealth champion with big world title ambitions going up against a former world champion who is now European champion at bantamweight.

“We get another opportunity to witness the brilliant Cuban Jadier Herrera in action in his adopted city. Then I am really expecting fireworks from the hammer-handed Jack Turner.

“We said that we wanted to re-establish Liverpool as a premier destination for the best of boxing and we mean what we say.”