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Nick Ball hit the Goodman Pick himself: Fans accuse the WBA master of avoiding real featherweight threats

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1 year ago

August 1, 2025

Image: Nick Ball Slammed for Sam Goodman Pick: Fans Accuse WBA Champ of Dodging Real Featherweight Threats

Nick Ball is scored by fans for choosing a Super Bantamweight, Goodman himself as his next pretender to defend his WBA featherweight title before August 16 to Dazn PPV.

Sam Goodman Fight Backlash

Ball (22-0-1, 13 KO) is perceived by some fans as The worst type of master Since winning the WBA belt 126-Funt in June 2024 with victory over Raymond Ford.

Since winning the WBA belt, Ball has defended himself against the next 122-pound before TJ Dohen and Ronny Rios. Now he chooses another super Bantamweight, Goodman himself 20-0, 8 KO) to defend your wba featherweight belt before.

Turks Alalshikh He should have informed Nick Ball that in order to fight on his card of August 16 in Riyadh, he had to fight one of the highly respected fighters from the division of the pencil weight, and not another fighter from the Super Bantameight division.

Perfect types:

Bruce Carrington
Otabek Kholmatov
Angelo Leo

Avoiding candidates for the highest weight for feathers?

Some fans believe that the ball is deliberately fighting the penniless opposition from the Division 122 pounds to keep its WBA feathers long enough to fight the Japanese star Nayya Inoue When he goes to the division 126 pounds during the year or two.

Fighting with smaller fighters, such as 38-year-old, i.e. Doheny, frail, good man and 34-year-old Rios, ensures that Ball will retain its WBA title until Inoue moves to this great payment day.

“If he wants a shot, he must be careful about how he moves to it, because he may not get this shot,” said Nick Ball to the Ring magazine canalResponding to the claimant to WBA No. 2, Bruce Carrington, saying that his team has already submitted an offer to fight him and not send.

DOI WBA title

Ball basically says that he will exploit Carrington’s conversation as a reason to avoid fighting him, which is bad on his part. Nick has already passed by Bruce in the title defense, which he has done since winning the WBA belt. Until now, two Ball defenses have come against these warriors:

TJ Doheny: The 38-year-old who was pulled out of Super Bantam [122-lb] Division for exploit as his pretender.
Ronny Rios: Another warrior who recently moved from 122 to the pencil science division. He was not seen as a worthy fight for the title of WBA champion against Ball. The choice of rios was seen as another way for Nick to extend his time as a master, milking him.

“Everyone talks about it, everyone wants it to happen,” Ball said about the fight between him and Nayya Inoue. “I will fight everyone. So he will be exhilarating when it will happen.

Last updated 08/01/2025

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Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyus Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyu's Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News"

Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.

Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.

Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.

Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.

“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.

“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.

“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”

Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.

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Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight"

Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.

The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.

Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.

It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.

Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.

“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.

“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.

“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”

While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.