Nick Ball ground down TJ Doheny to secure victory after 10 rounds in a second defence of his WBA world featherweight title Saturday. Ball (22-0-1, 13 KOs) increased the pressure as the fight progressed,

Nick Ball retained his WBA featherweight title in front of a buoyant home crowd in Liverpool but his stoppage of TJ Doheny after 10 bruising rounds was not without controversy.

Tensions boiled over in the ring on Saturday night as Nick Ball put his WBA featherweight title on the line against TJ Doheny. At the end of the first stanza, both men wound up against the ropes,