{"id":4216,"date":"2025-03-17T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzz7.info\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:37:55","slug":"boxer-nick-ball-kicks-opponent-and-leaves-him-on-the-canvas-during-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Nick Ball KICKS opponent and leaves him on the canvas during world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\"><figcaption>Ball floored Doheny with a wild kick (Picture: Jan Kruger\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>World champion boxer Nick Ball floored his opponent TJ Doheny with a wild kick in their title fight in <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/liverpool-fc\/\" data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ball, 28, put his WBA featherweight title on the line in his home city with bizarre scenes unfolding at the end of the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>After an exchange in the corner of the ring, Doheny appeared to be holding Ball in a headlock after the bell had rung.<\/p>\n<p>Ball responded by aiming a kick at the Irish fighter who fell to the mat with gasps coming from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Michael Alexander spoke sternly to both fighters who amicably touched gloves at the start of the second round with the fight continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Ball, who won his world title last summer in a wonderful win over Raymond Ford, piled on the pressure during the second-half of the fight, catching Doheny with shuddering shots upstairs and to the body.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22734217\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2205289646.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" alt=\"Boxing In Liverpool - Nick Ball v TJ Doheny\" width=\"646\" height=\"407\" \/><\/div><figcaption>Ball retained his WBA featherweight title (Picture: Jan Kruger\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>38-year-old Doheny was throwing little back but stood his ground valiantly, absorbing huge damage as he survived another relentless attack in the 10th round.<\/p>\n<p>In between rounds, the decision was made by Doheny\u2019s corner to pull their man out and rescue him from further pain.<\/p>\n<p>Ball remains undefeated in 23 fights with his only blemish his hugely contentious draw with Rey Vargas last year, a fight many believed the Liverpudlian won.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In there, it\u2019s going to be tricky. It\u2019s a world title fight in my own city. Sometimes I can rush in. The main thing is taking my time and it paid off,\u2019 Ball said post-fight.<\/p>\n<p>Source: metro.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball floored Doheny with a wild kick (Picture: Jan Kruger\/Getty Images) World champion boxer Nick Ball floored his opponent TJ Doheny with a wild kick in their title fight in Liverpool. Ball, 28, put his WBA featherweight title on the line in his home city with bizarre scenes unfolding at the end of the opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}