{"id":22442,"date":"2024-09-13T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sunny-edwards-v-galal-yafai-british-pair-to-fight-in-birmingham-on-30-november\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:12:08","slug":"sunny-edwards-v-galal-yafai-british-pair-to-fight-in-birmingham-on-30-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sunny-edwards-v-galal-yafai-british-pair-to-fight-in-birmingham-on-30-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Edwards v Galal Yafai: British pair to fight in Birmingham on 30 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former flyweight world champion Sunny Edwards will face Olympic gold medallist Galal Yafai in an all-British fight.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contest will take place at BP Pulse Live in Birmingham on 30 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards, 28, beat Adrian Curiel in June after losing his IBF flyweight title and unbeaten record to Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez last December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham&#8217;s Yafai, 31, has won all seven pro fights with five stoppages. He has been fast-tracked in the pro ranks after capturing gold at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair know each other well having sparred several rounds as part of the Team GB set-up and as professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They fought once in the as amateurs, with Edwards wining their 2015 bout by split-decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c36n6774n3ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former flyweight world champion Sunny Edwards will face Olympic gold medallist Galal Yafai in an all-British fight. The contest will take place at BP Pulse Live in Birmingham on 30 November. Edwards, 28, beat Adrian Curiel in June after losing his IBF flyweight title and unbeaten record to Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez last December. Birmingham&#8217;s Yafai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22444,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}