Brave, tough performance from Doheny, who just faded and got battered under Ball's relentless pressure.

Nick Ball (21-0-1, 12 KO) vs TJ Doheny (26-5, 20 KO), featherweights, 12 rounds, for Ball’s WBA title

• Ball, 28, gets a second straight title defense at home in Liverpool after battering Ronny Rios last October. On paper, this is a similar level fight against a similarly faded fringe contender, but Doheny, 38, has the power and style to be more dangerous on the return fire than Rios ever did, too. Even Naoya Inoue paid Doheny's pop plenty of respect and wasn't being reckless in finding the openings when Doheny last fought in September. How you go from losing a super bantamweight title fight to getting a featherweight world title fight is up to the WBA to explain, but they don't have to because nobody REALLY cares, we all just go, "That's bad!" and then we move on. Doheny's last featherweight bout was in 2022, a win over a washed Cesar Juarez, but he is a former super bantamweight titleholder; you know, in the late 2010s. But Ball is fun to watch if you don't get too picky about the rules of boxing or anything, just a little wrecking ball of volume and energy, and Doheny has the puncher's chance, basically, because Ball is not typically very careful with his attacks.

Jack Turner (10-0, 9 KO) vs Ryan Farrag (23-5, 6 KO), super flyweights, 10 rounds

• Turner, 23, is a rising prospect at 115 lbs, and also a local favorite, if you're wondering why this is so high up the card. Went 7-0 in 2024. This is his first fight of 2025, and he's stepping it up a bit against the veteran Farrag, 37, who actually won the Commonwealth title last June with a victory over Quaise Khademi, but isn't defending that in this fight for whatever reason. Well, the reason may simply be that Turner is not ready for a 12-round fight but Farrag makes sense as an opponent.

at least two judges got enough of it right even if all of that is trash and so was the fight

we've gone past "at least Sunny would fight" into "at least when Sunny didn't want to be there he told his corner so and retired"

This is nothing to do with a "sweet science." He is avoiding physical interaction, period. Maybe the hope is Cain will get tired, and there's a second half to go, but this is brutal to watch.

Andrew Cain (13-1, 12 KO) vs Charlie Edwards (20-1, 7 KO), bantamweights, 12 rounds, for Cain’s British and Commonwealth titles

• Cain, 28, won the British and Commonwealth titles in July 2024 by stopping veteran Ashley Lane in the fifth round, and last fought in October, grabbing a minor WBC rankings trinket with a second round TKO over Lazaro Casseres. He's a puncher, but he's far from invulnerable; the previously-seen Ionut Baluta won a split decision over him in 2023. To give Cain credit, he didn't let that drown his momentum, he's bounced back with three straight wins. Edwards, 32, feels it's going to be about levels and not Cain's power, and he could be right. A former flyweight titleholder, Edwards is 5-0 since moving up in weight, but that's also taken him four-and-a-half years and the opposition has been fairly carefully chosen; I mean, Thomas Essomba is better than his record, but at this point not by as much as he was before. Edwards won the European title by beating Essomba last September, but that's not on the line, and will in fact be contested between Vincenzo Picardi and Cristian Zara on May 9 in Italy, if you were curious.