Sunny Edwards displays his disappointment after the fight
Former world champion Sunny Edwards (21-2, 4KO) defeated Adrien Curiel (24-6-1, 5KO) on Saturday night, June 29, in Phoenix, America, live on DAZN.
The 12-round flyweight fight was cut short in the ninth round after the Brit suffered from a huge cut across his forehead and over his right eye, caused by an accidental head clash.
Sunny was ahead on all three scorecards – 82-90, 84-88, 85-87 – and was awarded a technical decision win.
Despite getting back to winning ways after tasting defeat for the first time to the event headliner Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez last December, ‘Showtime’ Sunny was disappointed with the outcome.
When asked if he was happy with his performance, Sunny answered IFL TV honestly, “My corner was. I listened to instructions, I did what I was told. Back to ‘boxing Sunny’. And it’s hard because now I can’t gauge how those rounds are because I like a fight, yeah, but I listened to instructions, did what I was told to do and I stuck to the plan, but disappointing night really, overall.
“Not that anyone cares, I don’t think, but my whole boxing career always seems to like… always has something. That make sense? There’s always something. Even when I’m winning there’s always something.
“I won my world title in front of 30 people behind closed doors. And I defended it twice, no one really cared.
“Then when I lost, people started caring again. And I come out [tonight] with the chance to put on a show… six months ago I got knocked out, I got cheered out [the arena]. This night, I didn’t lose a round and I was the one who got headbutted, I didn’t do the foul, I didn’t the damage, I was just trying to box a clean fight, like I always do, and look at my face man, it doesn’t feel like a win. I’m a 12-round fighter.”
Another disappointed Briton on the night was Ramla Ali, who lost her challenge to Yamileth Mercado for the WBC World super-bantamweight title.
Sunny also took the time to answer IFL TV’s questions of a potential fight with Galal Yafai, but he was quite adamant it would never materialise after recent conversations, even if both boxers wanted it.