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 Area in Birmingham, England. The cardboard shall be proven reside on DAZN, starting at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Outcomes
– Light-weight Cameron Vuong (7-0, 3 KOs) had his hardest profession take a look at tonight, barely edging out Gavin Gwynne (17-4-1, 5 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous choice. Each guys had been throwing nonstop punches, and Vuong did just a bit bit higher work to get the razor-close choice.
Gwyne was minimize below each of his eyes from quite a few pictures that Vuong had him with. The judges’ scores had been 96-95, 97-94, and 96-94.
– BBBofC English gentle heavyweight champion Troy Jones (12-0, 6 KOs) defeated Michael Stephenson (9-3) by a ten-round unanimous choice. Jones threw nonstop gentle pictures to get the higher of Stephenson in a aggressive however one-sided battle. The judges’ scores had been 98-91, 98-91 and 97-93.
– Tremendous middleweight prospect Aaron Bowen (29-5, 4 KOs) knocked out James Todd (4-4-2) within the fifth spherical. Bowen, 25, despatched Todd to the canvas within the spherical with a left to the midsection.
Moments earlier than, Bowen had been touchdown pictures at will in opposition to the harm and drained Todd. Even when Bowen hadn’t dropped him with a physique shot, he was going to knock him out with a headshot as a result of he was reeling.
The battle was waived off after Todd did not beat the rely. The time was at 1:46 of the fifth. Within the second, Todd dropped Bowen with a superbly positioned left hook to the top.
– Tremendous featherweight prospect Ibraheem ‘Spider’ Sulaimaan (6-0, 4 KOs) regarded spectacular, scoring a fast second-round knockout win over Marvin Solano (24-21, 8 KOs). In spherical two, Sulaimaan flattened the 34-year-old Nicaraguan Solano with a tough left to the physique. The referee then stopped the battle. The official time was at 2:54.
– 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 an enormous shot moments earlier than getting dropped for the knockout. Fortunately for Bevan, O’Neill isn’t an enormous puncher as a result of he was combating 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 thrice within the battle, dropping him as soon as in spherical 4 from a left hook to the top 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: Fundamental 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 position this battle on the primary card for apparent causes. The previous WBA tremendous middleweight champion Smith, 34, is predicted to attain a quick knockout.
Edwards (21-1,4 KOs) misplaced his IBF belt final 12 months, dropping to Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez by a ninth-round stoppage on December sixteenth. If Edwards, 28, wins tonight, he’ll be ready to battle 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 bounce up in competitors. Yafai isn’t younger at 31, and he wants to hurry up his profession if he desires to perform something earlier than he ages out.
