Promoter Eddie Hearn commented on the victory of his ward, Olympic champion Galal Yafay (9-0, 7 KOs) over the former world champion Sunny Edwards (21-2, 4 KOs), Sports.kz reports with reference to Tribuna.com.
In the 6th round, Yafai won by technical knockout and won the interim WBC flyweight title.
“We want to bring big world title fights to the UK. He will be here for a long time.
We have another boxer named Jesse Rodriguez. One day these two will meet in the sport's biggest fight. Yafai's main goal now is to win the world flyweight title, and hopefully that will happen in the future.
It was an incredible evening in Birmingham. Over the past 18 months we've been here…
