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Sunny Edwards: "There's Nowhere For
The Other Champions To Hide Now"
Sunny Edwards plans on defending his IBF Flyweight World
Title in style against Chile's undefeated Andres Campos this
Saturday June 10 at the OVO Arena Wembley, live worldwide on
DAZN, before setting his sites firmly on the other World
Champions at 112lbs.
Edwards (19-0, 4 KOs) is determined to unify the Flyweight
division before moving on to achieve his goal of becoming a
multi-weight World Champion, and the gifted 27-year-old now
finds himself in the perfect place for a unification clash
with Mexico's big punching WBC 112lbs ruler Julio Cesar
Martinez and San Antonio's WBO king Jesse 'Bam' Rodriguez.
Edward's eagerly anticipated Matchroom debut tops a
blockbuster triple-header of World Title action in the
capital, with Nina Hughes (5-0, 2 KOs) defending her WBA
Bantamweight crown against Katie Healy (6-0) and Cherneka
Johnson (15-1, 6 KOs) defending her IBF Super-Bantamweight
strap against Ellie Scotney (6-0). Check
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“There’s nowhere for the other champions to hide now," said
Edwards. "One at a time, they will get their turn. What I do
is different to anything anyone else does in a boxing ring.
The world is waiting, and I think right now I am the number
one Flyweight in the world. I would argue that I am one of
the best Flyweights in the world.
“Fight night is my best night of my year, better than my
birthday and better than Christmas, it’s the best night of
the year. I think Eddie, and the rest of Matchroom and DAZN,
they genuinely know that with me, they get a fighter that
wants to fight and will fight anyone. I am Sunny ‘Showtime’
Edwards – IBF Flyweight World Champion and the best
Flyweight in the world."
'Showtime' looked set to face WBC ruler Martinez in a huge
unification clash at the back end of last year. The pair
were deep in negotiations to stage a showdown in Mexico, but
Martinez instead agreed to face mandatory challenger
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The British star was bitterly disappointed after losing his
shot at unifying the division, and believes that it was his
Mexican rival that pulled the plug on the fight, instead
choosing to face easier opposition in order to keep hold of
his World Title belt.
“It’s not just that I want all of the belts, I don’t want
anyone else to have them," said Edwards. "It sickens me, it
pains me that there’s three other people at my weight that
walk around saying the same s**t that I say. The fact that
with professional boxing you can’t force someone in the ring
with you and they can go round showing of a belt, like look
at Martinez for f***s sake – that’s terrible.
"I genuinely believe, how can he even consider himself a
World Champion? He won it as a vacant title, failed a drugs
test, same fights rescheduled rescheduled rescheduled,
fighting easy opposition that I’d get slaughtered for. Every
single fight that he gets is easy, terrible records like
11-3 and 15-7, like what? You’re meant to be a World
Champion.
"You’re walking around trying to tell people that you’re
anywhere near the fighter that I am. Really, there are
people that would agree because he’s a World Champion at
Flyweight. Boxing is just obsolete because you have these
World Champions headlocking World Titles, headlocking good
contracts and just taking easy fights. That kills the
sport."
Before any further talks of unification fights can take
place, Edwards knows that he must deal with Campos in
convincing fashion this weekend, and the Sheffield-based
talent insists that his full attention is on the unbeaten
26-year-old.
Campos (15-0, 4 KOs), ranked at seven in the IBF rankings,
has held the WBO Latino Flyweight strap since March 2020 and
the South American, who has called Edwards out before,
landed the 15th win of his career in January and fourth
inside the distance – and now lands the World Title shot
he’s been craving.
“I’m fighting Andres Campos from Chile and outside of him
and his fans, abusing me on Instagram for the last however
many years, I don’t really know too much about him. I don’t
really care about knowing too much about him. When I get in
there it’s the Sunny show. It’s showtime, and there’s not
time like showtime. When I get in there, it’s whatever I
want it to be. I don’t focus on him. I don’t need to talk
about him."
Edwards vs. Campos tops a huge night of World Title action
in Wembley, Cruiserweight Cheavon Clarke (5-0, 4 KOs) looks
to close in on a British Title tilt as he faces David
Jamieson (10-2, 7 KOs) in a Final Eliminator for the famous
Lord Lonsdale Challenge Belt, Youssef Khoumari (15-1-1, 6
KOs) and Reece Bellotti (15-5, 13 KOs) meet in an eliminator
for British Super-Featherweight Title, The ‘Romford Bull’
Johnny Fisher (8-0, 7 KOs) will bring his Bull Army to
Wembley for the third time as the 24-year-old Heavyweight
fights for the ninth time in the pros against Emilio Salas
(7-4-1, 3 KOs), Anthony Joshua-managed Shannon Ryan (4-0)
returns to the venue of her March 2022 debut to continue her
pro journey, and rising starlets George Liddard (2-0, 2 KOs)
and Muhammad Ali (1-0) feature on Before the Bell.
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