Former IBF World flyweight champion Sunny Edwards will attempt to revive his career tonight, facing unbeaten Galal Yafai in a 12-round dust-up for the WBC interim 112-lb belt from the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England. The card will be shown live on DAZN, beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Results
– Super featherweight prospect Ibraheem ‘Spider’ Sulaimaan (6-0, 4 KOs) looked impressive, scoring a quick second-round knockout win over Marvin Solano (24-21, 8 KOs). In round two, Sulaimaan flattened the 34-year-old Nicaraguan Solano with a hard left to the body. The referee then stopped the fight. The official time was at 2:54.
– Making his pro debut, former amateur star, light heavyweight Taylor Bevan (1-0, 1 KOs) crushed veteran Greg O’Neill (7-9-1, 1 KOs), dropping him twice to score a second-round knockout. The time of the stoppage was at 2:40 of the round. O’Neill caught Bevan with a big shot moments before getting dropped for the knockout. Luckily for Bevan, O’Neill isn’t a big puncher because he was fighting recklessly.
– Former WBA super middleweight champion Callum Smith (30-2, 22 KOs) knocked out journeyman Carlos Galvan (20-5-2, 19 KOs) in round five of a scheduled eight-round contest on the preliminary portion of the card.
Smith sent Galvas, 33, to the canvas three times in the fight, dropping him once in round four from a left hook to the head and twice more in round five with lefts to the body. The time of the stoppage was at 1:19 of round five.
On DAZN at 2:00 pm ET: Main 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 light heavyweight Callum Smith (29-2, 21 KOs) facing Carlos Galvan (20-14-2, 19 KOs) in an eight-rounder. Matchroom didn’t choose to place this fight on the main card for obvious reasons. The former WBA super middleweight champion Smith, 34, is expected to score a fast knockout.
Edwards (21-1,4 KOs) lost his IBF belt last year, losing to Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez by a ninth-round stoppage on December 16th. If Edwards, 28, wins tonight, he’ll be in a position to fight for the WBC flyweight belt in 2025.
2016 Olympian Galal Yafai (8-0, 6 KOs) is facing his first talented point of his two-year career, battling Edwards, and it’s going to be interesting to see how he deals with the jump up in competition. Yafai isn’t young at 31, and he needs to speed up his career if he wants to accomplish anything before he ages out.
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