Until relatively recently, Nick Ball carried the flag as Britain's sole world champion.

Ball (23-0-1, 13 KOs) receives a fraction of the attention lots of less accomplished fighters enjoy but has held the WBA featherweight belt since outpointing the excellent Raymond Ford in June 2024.

On Saturday night, he defends his belt for the fourth time when fighting America's two-weight world champion Brandon Figueroa (26-2-1, 19 KOs) over 12 rounds in-front of home fans at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena.

The fight will be exclusively streamed live on DAZN.

Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren, has been one of Ball's biggest supporters and loudest cheerleaders. Warren believes that the 28-year-old is, pound-for-pound, Britain's best and most exciting fighter and agrees when it is put to him that he may also be the most under-appreciated.

"He is and hopefully this fight will really show the world what he's all about," Warren told The Ring after seeing the two go eye-to-eye at Thursday's final press conference.

"He's in with a very good fighter. It's not a hand-picked opponent, it's a mandatory. They've both got tremendous workrates so you know it's gonna be an all-action fight. I know face-offs are all theatre but neither wanted to blink or look away. That's rivalry and the intensity that I think this fight's going to bring."

Earlier this week, Ball told The Ring while he acknowledges just how tough Figueroa is, he hopes the Texan is the final obstacle between him and a fight with one of his rival featherweight champions.

Newly-crowned WBC titleholder Bruce 'Shu-Shu' Carrington recently expressed his interest in travelling to England for a unification fight. Meanwhile, Warren would love to re-open talks about the idea of Ball welcoming The Ring's junior featherweight champion and pound-for-pound great Naoya Inoue, to the 126-pound division.

"Really he should be unified champion," Warren said. "He got robbed in that fight [with then WBC titleholder, Rey Vargas] when they gave a draw but that's the name of the game - becoming unified champion - and I love that Inoue fight, I really do.

"They talked about it, they were all up for it and suddenly as you say, it went cold."