Matchroom Boxing Gets Green Light To Stage Galal Yafai Vs Francisco Rodriguez Jr Fight

Matchroom Boxing attained the promotional rights for the ordered Galal Yafai-Francisco ‘Chihuas’ Rodriguez interim WBC flyweight belt bout. The promotional company got the tender unopposed. Matchroom rendered $222,000 as the lone bidder during Tuesday’s hearing as part of the authorizing body’s weekly ‘Martes de Café’ get-together.

The fight is aimed for either June or July. Neither a definitive date nor location are flouted yet for this match.

Whoever emerges victorious will be mandatory challenger for present WBC 112-pound champion Kenshiro Teraji. Teraji is position ten in The Ring's pound-for-pound list.

Yafai (9-0, 7 KOs), last boxed in November. He stopped former IBF flyweight titleholder Sunny Edwards in six rounds to affirm himself as one of the best pugilists in Britain.

Besides, the Olympic gold-medallist has been with Matchroom for the whole of his boxing professional career. He initially left the amateur system following his accomplishment at Tokyo 2020.

Elsewhere, Rodriguez (39-6-1, 27 KO) isn’t as decorated, yet he eyes to pose a stiff competition if he can make the weight after a long attempt at 115; he hasn’t been defeated since “Chocolatito” Gonzalez finished him in 2013. He has mounted strong contests against the likes of Kazuto Loka.

Yafai vs. Rodriguez clash was ordered while Kenshiro Teraji (25-1, 16 KOs)—the dominating full WBC flyweight champion — was allowed to face countryman and then-WBA winner Seigo Yuri Akui, 21-3-1 (11 KOs).

Teraji lately consolidated his WBC as well as Ring titles with the WBA strap after thrashing Seigo Yuri Akui by 12th-round stoppage in a bout of the year contender earlier this month in Tokyo.