Boxing results: The ball lasts the punishment, stops Doheny late

The AB Pen Weight Champion, Nick Ball (22-0-1, 14 kos), had to fight hard to defeat the former super bantam weight champion of IBF TJ Doheny (26-6, 20 kos) for a tenth round on Saturday night at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.

(Credit: Promotions of Leight Dawney/Queensberry)

Doheny pushes the ball to the limit

Ball-Doheny was supposed to be a mismatch, but it was anything but an easy fight for Ball, 28, who took many heavy shots of TJ Doheny, 38, in one of his toughest fights of his career. Whether Ball wants to admit it or not, this was a very difficult fight for him, Doheny proved to be cunning, powerful and hard.

He was one of those guys where he was going to get his pound of meat regardless of what, and inflicted many punishments in the ball in a loser effort. Even the combatants they overcome can harm, and that is what we saw tonight. The promoter Frank Warren turned out to have made the right decision by selecting Doheny as Ball’s opponent because this was one of his most entertaining clashes.

Doheny had nothing left in the ninth and tenth rounds of hard shots, and the fast rhythm that Ball had fought throughout the contest. His right eye was complete closed by the tenth, and clearly could not see blows that came from that angle. Even so, Doheny still landed some good shots in the round. The referee Michael Alexander arrested the contest at the end of the round. The official time was at 3:00 in Ronda Diez.

Ball was penalized at a point in the ninth round for throwing Doheny into the canvas. This was the second time in the fight that this great wrestling movement had achieved. In the first round, Ball kicked Doheny on the back of his legs, sending him. The referee decided not to attach a point of him, but he should have done it. That was a hard kick that Ball had given Doheny and seemed something out of a MMA fight.

Cain explodes Edwards in the divided decision

In La Cofreza, the British Gallo and the Commonwealth Andrew Cain (14-1, 12 KO) weighing champion surpassed former WBC of the WBC weight champion Charlie Edwards (20-2, 7 kos), gaining a divided decision of 12 rounds to win the 118 LB of silver belt of the WBC Silver silver.

Edwards seemed that he came to survive instead of fighting, since he moved throughout the contest, and showed no effort to try to win up to the last two rounds in 11 and 12.

The scores were 115-114, 116-12 for Cain and 115-113 for Edwards.

Herrera power screen: Enriquez stopped

The light and undefeated contender Jadier Herrera (17-0, 15 KO) showed excellent power, if not a great defense, stopping José Macias Enriquez (21-4-2, 8 kos), for a seventh round technical knockout.

The referee shot after the 22 -year -old Cuban talent Herrera downloaded with a storm of blows against a helpless Enrique in the seventh round. Enriquez had nothing left at that stage of the fight, and Herrera was hit at will. The detention time was at 2:31 of the seventh.