Bruce Carrington takes aim at Nick Ball and featherweight world championship unification
Bruce Carrington will fight for the WBC featherweight world championship at Madison Square Garden in his New York hometown; "Shu Shu" Carrington is eyeing a future world title unification against Britain's Nick Ball; Carrington plans to become the next star of American boxing
Friday 30 January 2026 18:32, UK
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.
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"Who knows, I might even fly out there," Carrington told Sky Sports. "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."
