Sunny Edwards is going pro

Sunny Edwards

SUNNY EDWARDS is turning professional. The younger brother of English flyweight champion Charlie Edwards, Sunny was a champion amateur, winning the England Boxing Elite championships at 49kgs in 2015. A member of the GB squad, he beat 2016 Olympian Galal Yafai in that tournament. Edwards will be managed by MGM Marbella and train out there with Danny Vaughan.

โ€œLosing in the ABAs [this year] on a very, very close one, I think that tipped me overโ€ฆ I thought these three rounds ainโ€™t for me,โ€ Sunny told Boxing News.

A slick, mobile counter-puncher, Sunny is convinced the pros will suit him better. โ€œCompletely. My fitness is there. For the last 15, 16 months Iโ€™ve been doing 10 rounds straight off with Charlie,โ€ he continued. โ€œEver since Charlieโ€™s been pro Iโ€™ve been doing 10 rounds straight off with him.

โ€œI think itโ€™s the right time nowโ€ฆ Things could have gone very differently if Iโ€™d been a bit lucky but it didnโ€™t so Iโ€™ve just got to play the cards Iโ€™m dealt. As soon as I saw Charlie boxing on these big shows, boxing, letโ€™s face it, worse opposition than I was boxing in the ABAs and getting paid a lot of money to do it, itโ€™s hard to keep turning up when you see that and Iโ€™m there, front row, for all these big fights and seeing boxers technically and in terms of natural ability Iโ€™m much, much better than doing real good things.

โ€œI want to get to the highest level I can achieve, hopefully thatโ€™s world level, hopefully I can become a world champion. But I just want to have as many fights, Iโ€™ll fight everyone and anyone out there. Thatโ€™s what I want to do.

โ€œIโ€™ll go for my apprenticeship, have a couple of fights learning the ropes, then I want to get in the big fights.โ€

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