On Saturday, August 19, Galal Yafai (4-0, 3 KOs) will tackle Tommy Frank (15-3-1, 3 KOs) in one in all Matchroom Boxing’s NXTGEN occasions. The flyweight bout will headline a card on the Utilita Area in Birmingham, England. DAZN will broadcast the occasion stay world wide. Additionally on the cardboard are quite a lot of fighters which might be within the prospect stage of their careers.
Yafai gained flyweight gold on the Tokyo Olympics with a call win over Carlo Paalam. In July 2022, he started his skilled boxing profession with a fifth spherical stoppage victory over Carlos Bautista. Because of his newbie pedigree, Yafai has solely fought ten-rounders as far as Matchroom makes an attempt to get him able for a world title shot sooner relatively than later. He fights in his hometown for the primary time in his professional profession towards Frank. Yafai will look to cement his place as a contender and inch nearer in the direction of a world title shot.
Frank made his skilled boxing debut practically six years previous to Yafai. At one level, he had a report of 13-0 earlier than back-to-back losses to Rosendo Guarneros set him again. He got here again from these losses with two wins in 2021, claiming the British flyweight title within the course of. In 2022, he drew with Craig Derbyshire (who had a misleading 8-28-3 report on the time) earlier than shedding his British flyweight title to Jay Harris through tenth spherical technical knockout in Could of this yr. Frank will look to return to contender standing with a win over Yafai.
Yafai-Frank undercard bouts
There are a complete of eight fights on the undercard of Yafai-Frank, together with the likes of Cyrus Pattinson, Aaron Bowen, and Solomon Dacres. Right here is extra in regards to the undercard from the Matchroom Boxing press launch:
Alnwick’s rising welterweight star Cyrus Pattinson (6-0, 4 KOs) broke down and stopped former British champion Chris Jenkins final trip in March in his first headline battle on the Utilita Area Newcastle to choose up the WBA Worldwide title.
The 29-year-old former Workforce GB standout places his title on the road towards Wolverhampton’s former Midlands Space Welterweight Champion Conah Walker (11-2-1, 3 KOs) as he continues to climb the 147lbs ladder in the direction of additional title pictures later this yr.
Warley heavyweight hope Solomon Dacres (6-0, 2 KOs) seems to be to construct on his two-round demolition of Robert Ismay earlier this yr whereas Oxford’s Jordan Flynn (9-0, 1 KOs) and Birmingham’s Kane Baker (19-10-1, 3 KOs) rematch in an eliminator for the English Tremendous-Featherweight Title following their April conflict.
There’s additionally motion on the cardboard for Bolton super-lightweight Khaleel Majid (10-0, 3 KOs), Coventry middleweight Aaron Bowen (2-0, 1 KO) and Leicester bantamweight prospect Muhammad Ali (2-0), plus skilled debuts for Birmingham duo Sahil Khan and Ibraheem Sulaimaan.
