Nick Ball, who retained his WBA featherweight title with an impressive and once again exciting performance, Ball stopping a game Ronny Rios in the 10th round in his native Liverpool on Saturday night, should by all rights be holding two world title belts now.
Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) made easy work of former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou (0-2), stopping him in the second round of a scheduled ten-round fight on Friday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Talk about a fight of two halves. Tonight in Riyadh, in the WBC featherweight title fight between defending champ Rey Vargas and unbeaten challenger Nick Ball, we didn’t see ‘Knockout Chaos,’ we instead saw a fight that went to the cards and may well prove to go down as one of the most controversial decisions of the year.
Rey Vargas (36-1-1, 22 KOs) held onto his WBC featherweight title with a questionable twelve-round draw against a highly motivated Nick Ball (19-0-1, 11 KOs) on Friday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ultra-exciting British featherweight Nick Ball wants the featherweight world. The unbeaten, 5’2” dynamo from Liverpool who has impressed and thrilled each fan who has seen him fight due to his all-action, throw a ton of punches style, will get his first shot at a world title next week.
Along with the two big heavyweight fights that will headline the action in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 8, will be a featherweight clash that might just prove to be the best fight of the night action-wise.
O’Shaquie Foster (20-2, 11 KOs) of Houston outpointed Rey Vargas (36-1, 22 KOs) of Otumba, Mexico, for the vacant WBC junior lightweight title at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
O’Shaquie Foster (20-2, 11 KOs) was on another level tonight, putting on a masterclass performance with a near-shutout 12-round unanimous decision over talented former two-division world champion Rey Vargas (36-1, 22 KOs) to claim the vacant WBC super featherweight title on Saturday night in front of a large crowd at the beautiful Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
With the words “ice water” and “shock the world” etched on his trunks, O’Shaquie Foster produced the fight of his life, coolly and methodically out-boxing two-division world champion Rey Vargas to capture the vacant WBC Super Featherweight World Championship in his first title shot live on SHOWTIME Saturday, February 11 from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in a Premier Boxing Champions event.
O’Shaquie Foster (20-2, 11 KOs) took previously unbeaten former two-division world champion Rey Vargas (36-1, 22 KOs) to school on Saturday night, dominating him from start to finish to win a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision to win the vacant WBC 130-lb title in the main event of their fight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.