As soon as Galal Yafai had beaten, and beaten up Sunny Edwards in their flyweight fight on Saturday night, talk began regarding the possibility of Yafai, who won the WBC interim title at flyweight, going up and engaging in a massive fight with super-flyweight champ Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez.
Flyweight sensation Galal Yafai not only gave us a sensational performance last night, completely dominating former IBF champ Sunny Edwards for a sixth-round stoppage win in his hometown of Birmingham to become the WBC interim champ, but the 31-year-old southpaw also arrived smack bang on the world stage in superb fashion.
Tonight in Birmingham, in their years in the making grudge-match, Galal Yafai turned what almost everyone thought was a genuine 50-50 fight going in into a one-sided showcase of the winner’s brilliance.
Galal Yafai (9-0, 7 KOs) used size, power, and rapid-fire combinations to stop Sunny Edwards (21-2, 4 KOs0 in the sixth round to claim the WBC Interim flyweight title on Saturday night at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England.
Former IBF flyweight champion Sunny Edwards weighed in at 111 lbs while his opponent, Galal Yafai, came in at 111.4 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in for their 12-round headliner battle for the WBC interim 112-lb title this Saturday, November 30th, at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England.
On this Thanksgiving week in America, let’s not waste any time getting into the meat and potatoes of this razor-close matchup between Sunny Edwards and Galal Yafai.
Those who are familiar with the rivalry between flyweights Sunny Edwards and Galal Yafai know their fight, which will go down on Saturday night, has been, as the fight hype blurb informs us, nine years in the making.
Another “blockbuster” fight between two pint-sized pugilists that nobody outside of Birmingham has ever heard of. Galal Yafai, the Olympic Champion, is about to face his “toughest test” yet.
Some fighters, some special fighters, carry with them a look of inevitability, as in it’s inevitable that they will become a world champion.