IBF flyweight champion Sunny “Showtime” Edwards and mandatory challenger Felix Alvarado, a former 108lb world champion, faced off at the final press conference for their showdown on Friday at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England. The bout will stream on FITE.
Sunny Edwards: “Alvarado is a great champion from the weight below but I genuinely think I’m past his level, I believe I am at elite level. We’ll find out if this will be my toughest fight. I’ve had ‘tough’ fights, but I’ve made them not look that.”
Felix Alvarado: “The opponents Sunny has fought are different to me and on Friday, he will find this out.”
Sunny Edwards.. a seriously good technician but a bit of an idiot… can’t have it all ways I guess.. ha
Would be much sunnier if he could crack an egg, think this will be another example of the boxer being too slick for the puncher. But hey, 1 big punch can always changes things
I usually prefer big punchers, but I really like Sunny, plenty of charisma and sublime skills.
Interesting fight but my money is on Alvarado who doesn’t look like the smaller fighter and he hits way harder. The question in this fight is can Alvarado catch Edwards clean ?
Probably difficult for Alvarado to win by decision-most likely outcome is distance fight but you would have to lay almost 5-1 odds.