BALL SKILLS

Class act Nick learning from the greats in video lessons

- by CHRIS MCKENNA

NICK BALL goes to school before every training session - and the Liverpool fighter is a model student.

The WBA featherweight gets a boxing education every morning from trainer Paul Stevenson.

The curriculum consists of boxing’s best, with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran on the syllabus.

Along with the other fighters, Ball, 28, sits through 30-minute video sessions before each physical session at Stevenson’s Everton Red Triangle gym in Liverpool.

Stevenson (inset) puts on the daily tutorials, where he goes through the trademark moves of some of the sport's finest that he wants his boxers to emulate in the ring.