Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington wanted to fight Nick Ball next more than any of boxing’s featherweight champions.

The feeling wasn’t mutual. What bothered Carrington more than that was that Ball instead agreed to defend his WBA 126-pound championship against Australia’s Sam Goodman on Aug. 16 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Goodman (20-0, 8 KOs) is a 122-pound contender and therefore not a challenger Carrington believes Ball (22-0-1, 13 KOs) should fight.

“We sent out a lucrative offer to [Ball] and he declined that,” Carrington told The Ring. “And now he’s going out to fight a 122-pounder that’s not punching, in Sam Goodman. I’ve got all the respect in the world for any boxer, but I don’t respect certain actions and the way Nick Ball moved in this certain situation with fighting Sam Goodman. I’m not saying that Sam Goodman won’t win the fight or nothing like that. Anything can happen in boxing, but it’s one-sided in my opinion and I feel like the public would agree with that as well.”

Goodman was twice supposed to challenge undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue — first on Dec. 24 and then on Jan. 24. The same cut suffered while sparring caused Goodman, who was the IBF and WBO mandatory challenger for two of Inoue’s titles, to withdraw from both bouts.

Liverpool’s Ball beat Irish southpaw TJ Doheny by technical knockout in his most recent fight. Doheny, 38, didn’t answer the bell for the 11th round of a foul-filled fight Ball led by large margins on all three scorecards when it was stopped March 15 at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Like Goodman, Doheny (26-6, 20 KOs) moved up from the 122-pound division to battle Ball.

Once Ball and other featherweight champions went in different directions, Brooklyn’s Carrington agreed to box Namibia’s Mateus Heita for the WBC interim featherweight title. Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs), who is ranked No. 1 by the WBC, and the 12th-ranked Heita (14-0, 9 KOs) will square off in a 12-round co-feature ESPN will televise July 26 from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Carrington had hoped to face Stephen Fulton for the WBC featherweight title. Philadelphia’s Fulton (23-1, 8 KOs) opted to move up to the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds, though, for a shot at WBC champ O’Shaquie Foster (23-3, 12 KOs) on the Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach undercard Aug. 16 in Las Vegas.

The WBC has afforded Fulton the flexibility to move up for the Foster fight and keep its featherweight title. The former WBC/WBO junior featherweight champ must decide after he faces Foster whether he’ll return to the 126 pounds.

“I didn’t expect Stephen Fulton to go up,” Carrington said. “I heard it was possibly happening. But I’m like, ‘Really? He only had two fights at 126. There’s no way.’ But he made this decision to go up and it is what it is. I can’t really harp on it too much because I’ve got other champions I can fight. But we sent interest and offers out to all the champions, and they all declined me. They all don’t wanna fight me. They basically want to continue to hold their belt for as long as they can without the maximum risk, which may be me.”