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.
Eddie Hearn says he wants to set up a fight between Galal Yafai and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez “One day” in the future following Yafai’s sixth-round TKO win over Sunny Edwards (21-2, 4 KOs) on Saturday night at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England.
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.
Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) was too young, too big, and too powerful for the old warrior Juan Francisco Estrada (44-4, 28 KOs), as he stopped him with a seventh-round knockout on Saturday night at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Juan Francisco Estrada weighed in at 115 lbs at the super flyweight limit, and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez came in at 115 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in for their headliner, live on DAZN, this Saturday, June 29th at the Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona.