Flyweight sensation Galal Yafai not solely gave us a sensational efficiency final night time, fully dominating former IBF champ Sunny Edwards for a sixth-round stoppage win in his hometown of Birmingham to grow to be the WBC interim champ, however the 31-year-old southpaw additionally arrived smack bang on the world stage in very good trend. And now, as his promoter Eddie Hearn has mentioned, the sky is the restrict.
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Yafai, who confirmed a lot ability, aggression, relentlessness, and punch selection as he took Edwards aside spherical by spherical, can now sit up for some enormous fights. The plain subsequent transfer, as Hearn mentioned finally night time’s post-fight presser, is to struggle full WBC flyweight champ Kenshiro Teraji. Yafai, 9-0(7), mentioned final night time that it could be good to return to Japan to struggle Teraji, the nation the place Yafai received his Olympic gold medal.
This one can be a possible traditional. “Wonderful Boy” Teraji, is a two-weight world champion, and the 32-year-old has been engaged in world title fights since again in 2017. Presently 24-1(15), Teraji received the WBC flyweight belt in October when he stopped Cristofer Rosales within the eleventh spherical of a very good motion struggle. Teraji has boxed an astonishing 16 world title fights, his sole loss coming towards Masamichi Yabuki, this down at light-fly, the tenth spherical TKO defeat being avenged a number of months later, with Teraji scoring a third-round stoppage.
It will be nice to see Teraji and Yafai compete in both Japan or the UK. Hearn agrees, however he has different thrilling concepts for Yafai as properly.
“Clearly the pure transfer, the pure development, is to go from interim world champion [to full world champion] and I’m positive it is going to be ordered,” Hearn mentioned on a Teraji-Yafai struggle. “A whole lot of choices although. We all know that Japan is a large marketplace for the lighter weight courses…..whoever we are able to try to carry right here is all the time the primary precedence, we’ve bought nice momentum now in Birmingham. He’s gonna be round for an extended, very long time. Three or 4 rounds in [last night] I used to be pondering to myself, ‘my God, Galal towards Bam in a few years is gonna be completely breathtaking.’ Will we carry a legend right here? Will we carry Chocolatito [Martinez] right here? Will we carry [Carlos] Cuadras or whoever, a giant, huge identify? I don’t actually wanna see him tread water.”
Hearn closed by saying he feels Yafai will present us his greatest stuff solely when he fears the man within the different nook. From right here on in, it guarantees to be huge and vital fights just for Yafai.
Yafai can be superior towards both of the 4 names Hearn listed – Teraji, Bam, Gonzalez, Cuadras. We could have to attend, although, for a Bam-Yafai conflict. Within the meantime, can Yafai unify the flyweight titles?
