Wilder vs Zhang LIVE: Fight updates and undercard results as Queensberry thrash Matchroom

Round five

Lots of clinching early in the fifth. Williams slips to his left to evade a long, straight shot.

Sheeraz presses forward but is tagged by a cross. His right eye is starting to swell partly closed...

Still he marches forward, landing jabs.

Round foour

Williams jabs to the body. He loads up on an overhand left but misses, but the next one lands! Sheeraz felt that!

The Queensberry man is holding on... The referee separates the boxers, and Sheeraz covers up for some time.

Snapping cross from Williams. This bout has already ebbed and flowed a fair bit, with Williams starting strongly, struggling in the third round, and coming back now.

Round three

Right cross lands clean on the jaw of Williams, who then eats a jab.

Sheeraz misses with an uppcercut but lands the follow-up cross! Williams gasps and his legs buckle somewhat...

Sneaky uppercut from Sheeraz, nice work. OH! And a sharp left straight off the break of a clinch!

Now a right hand! Is he closing in on a win? Williams is taking these with less and less surety...

Again Sheeraz misses with an uppercut but lands the ensuing straight. OH! And one more on the bell!

WHAT a round for Sheeraz.

Round two

A fair bit of holding, then both men land uppercuts after the break!

Clean overhand lands for Williams! And a cross, which has Sheeraz stumbling backwards!

Both men land long, straight shots late in the round.

Round one

Sheeraz stands orthodox; Williams is southpaw.

Short cross for Sheeraz, who is the taller man. Williams with a lead right hook, then some stabbing jabs.

Sheeraz pumps out his own jabs. Decent cross as well. He puts together a few straight shots now, most of which are blocked.

Next up, Queensberry’s Hamzah Sheeraz boxes Austin “Ammo” Williams of Team Matchroom.

Sheeraz, as Queensberry’s captain, will see his points doubled if he wins.

So, one point for a decision would become two; two points for a knockout would become four.

If he even gets a decision win, Matchroom will need something big from the last two fights...

They man end up leaning on their captain Deontay Wilder, in the main event...

Nick Ball def. Raymond Ford via split decision (113-115, 115-113, 115-113).

And new WBA featherweight champion!

A fair score. I mean, a Ford win wouldn’t have felt unfair either; it was a great, close fight. But Ball did enough, in my view.

Queensberry 2-0 Matchroom now! Ball earns a point for that decision win, just like Hutchinson against Richards.

Round 12

Final frame, and it might even come down to this!

Both fighters are just short with their shots. Ball pours on punches now, though, and Ford lands a perfect counter hook!!

Each man looked a little bit hurt in that moment! Great, long uppercut by Ball. More uppercuts and straights by the Briton.

OH! Ford has Ball on wobbly legs!! But Ball keeps throwing! His nose is STREAMING blood!

Both men land in a messy exchange before the bell!

Brilliant bout. It could go either way. It could be a draw. We’ll soon find out...

Round 11

Into the championship rounds. Nice one-two by Ford, who then pings a cross at the ribs of Ball.

Ball with his own body jab. Great follow-up flurry from the challenger, too, as he pins Ford to the ropes.

This is exactly what Ball needs to do, if the score is as close as we think.

Greatttt combination by Ford, but Ball fires back with venom and volume! Brilliant stuff.

Round 10

Ball sneaks in an uppercut. That’s been such a good weapon for him tonight.

Ball chases Ford around the ring now, trying to stop the champion from setting his feet.

Ford replies with a sequence of hooks, just about curving one past Ball’s guard.

Ford has really fought his way back into this one. I said at the start of round six, “If Ball can sustain this pressure, he’ll soon have a near-insurmountable lead,” but Ford found his feet at the right time, arresting that momentum.