By Declan Taylor
Sunny Edwards meets Galal Yafai in Birmingham tonight in a vastly vital all-British flyweight combat. If Sunny can snare win quantity 22 he’ll seize the WBC Interim title and march on in direction of a shot on the world title in 2025. However what have been his finest wins to date?
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MORUTI MTHALANE, 30.4.2021, London – UD 12
Huge-punching South African Moruti had been world champion for almost three years when he arrived at York Corridor, Bethnal Inexperienced. However he got here unstuck on the well-known outdated venue in what was the fourth defence of his title as Edwards placed on a masterclass of boxing and transferring to assert a unanimous resolution. In truth, so dominant was his victory, that choose Bob Williams even scored him a 120-108 shutout winner.
FELIX ALVARADO, 11.11.2022, Sheffield – UD 12
Within the third defence of his IBF flyweight title, Edwards welcomed the highly-experienced Alvarado to his adopted house city of Sheffield and boxed to orders to assert a criminally under-rated victory. Earlier than this combat, Alvarado, who had 33 stoppages in 38 wins, was undefeated in virtually a decade and had solely misplaced to Kazuto Ioka and Juan Carlos Reveco however he merely couldn’t deal with Edwards, who held off a spirited comeback to win on all three playing cards.
ADRIAN CURIEL, 29.6.2024, Phoenix – TD 9
No person ever likes successful a technical resolution however there is no such thing as a denying the standard of this victory over the world rated Adrian Curiel in Phoenix. This was Edwards’ comeback combat following his stoppage defeat to Bam Rodriguez six months earlier however he appeared again to finest at instances in opposition to the Mexican.
A conflict of heads opened up a horrific lower on Edwards’ head within the seventh nevertheless it did little to knock him out of his rhythm earlier than the combat was stopped within the ninth. All three judges had him clearly up on the time, handing him a victory.
