Brandon ‘The Heartbreaker’ Figueroa will get the decision as challenger for WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball on February seventh. Somebody up there likes Figueroa (26-2-1, 19 KOs) as a result of he’s getting a present world title shot after dropping earlier this yr.
Ball-Figueroa shall be broadcast on DAZN from the M&S Financial institution Area in Liverpool, England.
Ball’s Hometown Benefit
This can give the 28-year-old ‘Wrecking Ball’ hometown benefit towards the Houston, Texas native. He may not want it if Figueroa fights the best way he did in his lopsided 12-round unanimous choice loss to Stephen Fulton on February 1, 2025.
Judging by the response from followers on social media, this wasn’t the opponent folks needed from Ball for his subsequent protection. They hoped he would struggle a reside canine, somebody who remains to be on the prime of his sport. Followers understand Figueroa as on the draw back of his profession at 28.
A greater possibility would have been for Ball to defend towards Sulaiman Segawa or Mirco Cuello. The fellows that followers have been begging Nick to struggle are WBO champion Rafael Espinoza and WBC interim champion Bruce Carrington.
Ball’s Goodman Scare
These would have been dangerous decisions for Ball, who had his fingers full in his final struggle towards Sam Goodman. If that struggle is any gauge of what Nick has left within the tank, he can be in bother towards Espinoza and Carrington. Even Figueroa would possibly push him if he can recapture his kind from 2021 when he was on the zenith of his profession.
Figueroa did win his final struggle, defeating the succesful Joet Gonzalez by a 12-round unanimous choice on July nineteenth. However that struggle instructed us nothing, as Joet was a punching bag that former featherweights like Shakur Stevenson and Emanuel Navarrete used to look good in entrance of the followers.
Ball (23-0-1, 13 KOs) is retaining the momentum going along with his profession, holding down the WBA belt till Naoya Inoue arrives to face him in a mega-million struggle.
