Nick Ball has his eyes on staking a claim for a place at the top table of the featherweight division when he faces Ludlum Lamati this weekend.
Ball, who is the current WBC silver featherweight champion, faces South African Lamati on the undercard of Michael Conlan’s IBF world title clash with Luis Alberto Lopez. Now 17-0 with 10 KOs to his name, the 26-year-old was one of the breakout stars of 2022, as he beat Isaac Lowe, Nathanael Kakololo and Jesus Ramirez Rubio.
And Ball, who trains under Paul Stevenson at the Everton Red Triangle gym, is fighting with the intention of placing his name right in the frame to fight whoever emerges as IBF world champion next. He said: "That is the place I am going, the level I am going, which is world level.
