What's next for Usyk?🤷| Ball bullish ahead of Goodman title defence👍| Joey Essex vows to prove he's a fighter💪
Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast
Sky Sports
4.1 • 918 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ball previews his WBA featherweight title defence against Sam Goodman and reflects on controversially kicking TJ Doheny in his last fight.
Essex discusses his upcoming Misfits bout against Portuguese influencer Numeiro and the guidance of his uncle, successful trainer Tony Sims.
Kalsi and Mali reflect on their incredible achievements in the amateur ranks and what South Asia Heritage Month means to them.
The panel also debate what's next for Oleksandr Usyk and review Claressa Shields' win over Lani Daniels as she retained her undisputed heavyweight world title.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello to champion's back. |
| 0:03.0 | This is how to let you get made. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, hello and welcome to toe to toe to a podcast exclusive to Sky Sports. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Andy Scott and joining me later in the show, my co-host, the Shogun, Gary Logan. |
| 0:32.9 | We've got a plethora of guests today. |
| 0:35.8 | That is a new word that I have learned. So it'll be a rolling |
| 0:39.6 | substitute one in, one out. But before we bring the guests into the studio, I have caught up with |
| 0:46.8 | WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball, who flies out to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on |
| 0:51.4 | Saturday ahead of his title defence with Australia's Sam Goodman. |
| 0:56.1 | Nick Ball, great to see you. |
| 0:58.0 | Not long to go now. How's everything going? |
| 1:00.5 | I can see in the background, presumably |
| 1:01.9 | still in Liverpool. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, still in Liverpool. Everything's going |
| 1:05.9 | good, yeah. |
| 1:08.6 | You know, going out there Saturday, so yeah. So, yeah, once I get over there, |
| 1:13.3 | then get things going, do a bit of saying out there, but ready to go more than anything. |
| 1:19.0 | How much of an advantage is it that you've boxed over there, had success over there? |
| 1:23.5 | I mean, first time you go over there is quite a change, but having boxed there and boxed there successfully and had some good nights there, is that an advantage for you, do you think? Yeah, if you want it to be, yeah, if you look at it that way, it is in it, slightly. But at the end of the day, it's just another fight in it. So it doesn't really matter where it is yeah, you know, if you look at it in the 1% and things like that, |
| 1:48.5 | it is a slight advantage because you know, you know what it's like. |
| 1:53.0 | If you've come to terms of what goes on over the, you know, the weather, this and that, you know, yeah. |
| 1:59.2 | Well, can you tell me about your opponent, Sam Goodman? That's who you're defending your title against. What sort of fight are you expecting from him? Not too sure, you know, until I get in there with him. Yeah, probably found out on the night. But, yeah, he's an unbeaten opponent. Yeah, he's coming to them, come to try and take what it works so hard for, and I'm not going to let that happen. |
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