{"id":36467,"date":"2025-12-12T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nick-ball-liverpudlian-to-fight-brandon-figueroa-in-fourth-wba-featherweight-title-defence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:23:30","slug":"nick-ball-liverpudlian-to-fight-brandon-figueroa-in-fourth-wba-featherweight-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nick-ball-liverpudlian-to-fight-brandon-figueroa-in-fourth-wba-featherweight-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Ball: Liverpudlian to fight Brandon Figueroa in fourth WBA featherweight title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">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.<\/b><\/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.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy0qp25p07zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c1kppnj24mno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The bout against the American will be Ball&#8217;s fourth defence of the belt he won by beating Raymond Ford in June 2024. Ball&#8217;s most recent fight was a unanimous points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36469,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions\/36469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}