Boxing Feb 02, 2026

Bruce Carrington takes aim at Nick Ball and featherweight world championship unification

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Bruce Carrington takes aim at Nick Ball and featherweight world championship unification

Bruce Carrington hopes to meet Liverpool’s Nick Ball in a featherweight world championship unification.

Carrington fights Carlos Castro for the WBC featherweight crown at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night.

But he will be a keen observer of Nick Ball's WBA featherweight defence against Brandon Figueroa in Liverpool on February 7.

"Who knows, I might even fly out there," Carrington told Your Site. "I've been calling him out, I've been wanting to fight him for some time.

"Everyone has their own business directions and motivations and what they want to do, their own plans. I'm expecting that the time will come when we have to share the ring."

The American added: "That fight there is going to be interesting. [Ball] should win. I do think he should win that fight.

"If business makes sense for me to fight over in the UK then I'll definitely do that. But it'll be a big fight in New York."

Carrington is relishing fighting for a world championship at Madison Square Garden in his hometown. "For me to fight there, for the world title, is a dream come true," he said. "I've worked so hard for it.

"I've been through the Olympic [boxing] circuit, so many things through the amateurs, so many things through the pros, so many and ups and downs. I feel like now is the perfect time for the crowning moment."

From Brownsville in Brooklyn, like Mike Tyson before him, Carrington wants to become the next star of American boxing.

"I know I'll be that fighter," he said. "Think about fighters like Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, you think about guys like that and you don't think about them without thinking about Mike Tyson.

"That was Mike Tyson's era," he insisted. "Mike Tyson is the guy that took over the sport. I'm going to be the guy that takes over the sport."

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