Ball vs Figueroa: Fight time, undercard, prediction, odds and more

The highly-entertaining Liverpool favourite is back on Merseyside for what could be a very tricky test against a former two-division world champion.

That win ame just three months after Ball had been hard done by to miss out on the WBC title at 126lbs in a controversial split-decision draw with Rey Vargas.

Ball (23-1-0, 13 KOs) kicked out and had a point deducted for pushing during his dramatic 11th-round win over Ireland’s TJ Doheny in Liverpool, having also floored Ronny Rios three times during his first defence en route to a late stoppage.

The 28-year-old has since been pushing to unify at featherweight and targeted the likes of IBF champion Angelo Leo and WBO title-holder Rafael Espinoza, while he has also been called out already by Bruce ‘Shu Shu’ Carrington, who picked up the WBC belt by knocking out Carlos Castro on the Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson undercard at Madison Square Garden last weekend.

Ball has also been mentioned as a potentially difficult opponent for pound-for-pound great Naoya Inoue, who could move up to featherweight in future but is first expected to face Japanese rival Junto Nakatani in a super-bantamweight mega-fight later in 2026.