Former IBF World flyweight champion Sunny Edwards will try and revive his profession tonight, going through unbeaten Galal Yafai in a 12-round dust-up for the WBC interim 112-lb belt from the Resorts World Enviornment in Birmingham, England. The cardboard shall be proven reside on DAZN, starting at 2:00 p.m. ET.
– Making his professional debut, former beginner star, gentle heavyweight Taylor Bevan (1-0, 1 KOs) crushed veteran Greg O’Neill (7-9-1, 1 KOs), dropping him twice to attain a second-round knockout. The time of the stoppage was at 2:40 of the spherical. O’Neill caught Bevan with a giant shot moments earlier than getting dropped for the knockout. Fortunately for Bevan, O’Neill isn’t a giant puncher as a result of he was preventing recklessly.
– Former WBA tremendous middleweight champion Callum Smith (30-2, 22 KOs) knocked out journeyman Carlos Galvan (20-5-2, 19 KOs) in spherical 5 of a scheduled eight-round contest on the preliminary portion of the cardboard.
Smith despatched Galvas, 33, to the canvas 3 times within the combat, dropping him as soon as in spherical 4 from a left hook to the pinnacle and twice extra in spherical 5 with lefts to the physique. The time of the stoppage was at 1:19 of spherical 5.
On DAZN at 2:00 pm ET: Important card
Sunny Edwards (21-1, 4 KO) vs Galal Yafai (8-0, 6 KO)
Conah Walker (13-3-1, 5 KO) vs Lewis Ritson (23-4, 13 KO)
Kieron Conway (21-3-1, 6 KO) vs Ryan Kelly (19-4-1, 8 KO)
Cameron Vuong (6-0, 3 KO) vs Gavin Gwynne (17-3-1, 5 KO)
Hamza Uddin (2-0, 1 KO) vs Benn Norman (7-5, 0 KO)
On the preliminary card is gentle heavyweight Callum Smith (29-2, 21 KOs) going through Carlos Galvan (20-14-2, 19 KOs) in an eight-rounder. Matchroom didn’t select to put this combat on the primary card for apparent causes. The previous WBA tremendous middleweight champion Smith, 34, is anticipated to attain a quick knockout.
Edwards (21-1,4 KOs) misplaced his IBF belt final 12 months, shedding to Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez by a ninth-round stoppage on December sixteenth. If Edwards, 28, wins tonight, he’ll be ready to combat for the WBC flyweight belt in 2025.
2016 Olympian Galal Yafai (8-0, 6 KOs) is going through his first proficient level of his two-year profession, battling Edwards, and it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see how he offers with the leap up in competitors. Yafai isn’t younger at 31, and he wants to hurry up his profession if he needs to perform something earlier than he ages out.
