By Jeff Aranow: WBA World super flyweight champion Kal Yafai (22-0, 14 KOs) will be defending his title this Saturday night against his No.1 WBA mandatory challenger Sho Ishida (24-0, 13 KOs), and he’s hoping to get a fight against former 4 division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KOs) after that.
By Jim Dower: The World Boxing Association has moved former 4 division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez to No.2 in their rankings at 115, and he says he’s interested in facing WBA super flyweight champion Kal Yafai and WBO champion Naoya Inoue.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World super flyweight champion Kal Yafai (22-0, 14 KOs) won a tougher than predicted 12 round unanimous decision victory over #10 WBA Suguru Muranaka (25-3-1, 8 KOs) on Saturday night at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, England. The judges scored the fight 118-108, 119-107, and 119-107. Boxing News 24 scored the fight 10-1-1 in favor of Yafai due to his high number of power shots landed.
By Scott Gilfoid: Tonight, WBA super flyweight champion Kal Yafai (21-0, 14 KOs) will be inside the ring defending his title against Japan’s Suguru Muranaka (25-2-1, 8 KOs) at the Barclaycard Arna in Birmingham, UK. This is the 27-year-old Yafai’s first defense of his WBA strap, which he won last December in being Luis Conception. That wasn’t much of a fight due to the size differences between the two fighters.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World super flyweight champion Kal Yafai (21-0, 14 KOs) successfully weighed in at 114 ¼ pounds on Friday at his official weigh-in for his title defense against #10 WBA fringe contender Suguru Muranaka (25-2-1, 8 KOs) for their fight this Saturday night at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, UK.
Kal Yafai says Anthony Joshua MBE has set a new benchmark for British fighters to follow as he prepares to make the first defence of his WBA World Super-Flyweight title against Suguru Muranaka at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports.
Yafai and Joshua are close from their days as Team GB teammates, and Yafai won the crown he defends on home turf this weekend on the undercard of Joshua’s win over Eric Molina in Manchester in December.