Those that are acquainted with the rivalry between flyweights Sunny Edwards and Galal Yafai know their battle, which can go down on Saturday night time, has been, because the battle hype blurb informs us, 9 years within the making. Since their newbie days, these two have recognized there would come a time after they would battle on the professional stage, maybe with a significant title on the road.
Saturday’s battle will contest the WBC interim flyweight title, however there can be a lot extra at stake. Each males are determined to win, and as Eddie Hearn says, there may be “nothing between these two.” That’s so far as expertise, ability, and so far as who truly wins goes. However there IS a grudge between these two.
Former IBF champ Edwards, crushed solely by Bam Rodriguez on the professional stage, feels he’ll outbox Yafai and even “make him look foolish.” Olympian Yafai says he feels he has what it takes to attain the KO win on Saturday.
Edwards is 21-1(4), whereas Yafai, a southpaw and an older man by three years at age 31, is at the moment 8-0(6).
So, who wins?
Hearn broke it down as follows:
“I actually can’t cut up them,” Hearn mentioned to SportsBoom.com. “I don’t assume anybody can, with any actual confidence or intention. Sunny has been on the prime of the tree, however has he had too many onerous fights? Galal is recent and on the way in which up, however is he too inexperienced to do that one? You can also make a case for both of them to win this and that’s what makes it such an important one. It genuinely may go both method, and there may be jeopardy for each of them.”
Choose: Yafai to get off to an important begin, with him profitable the early and center rounds, with him scoring an early knockdown, and with him then holding on as Edwards comes on sturdy within the championship rounds. Yafai through shut however unanimous resolution win.
