Fresh off his title-winning performance, Bruce Carrington has made his ambitions clear. After stopping Carlos Castro in nine rounds to claim the vacant WBC featherweight title on January 31, Carrington immediately called for a unification bout with Liverpool’s WBA champion Nick Ball.
Carrington said his emphatic win proved he belongs at the championship level. “It showed I’m championship ready,” he explained. “I’ve been wanting to fight the winner of that, particularly Nick Ball, for over a year at this point. And I feel like at this moment this is the perfect time for us to unify.” Ball is set to defend his WBA title against Brandon Figueroa in Liverpool, a bout Carrington has been closely watching.
The Brooklyn native also revealed that talks for a unification had previously stalled. “We sent our offers, they declined offers,” Carrington said, before adding that circumstances may have changed. “Now I think they have a little more incentive to push that fight and make it happen and it’s going to be something sweet when I become unified world champion.”
Reflecting on his highlight-reel finish of Castro, Carrington described the moment as validation. “For it to happen like that, it’s definitely a statement made, to whoever doubted me, to whoever wants to fight,” he said. At 28, Carrington remains grounded despite the breakthrough, stressing that sustained excellence matters most. “I believe I am great, and in order to be great you’ve got to keep being great again and again,” he said. “And I’m going to keep being great again and again.”
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