{"id":1427,"date":"2023-08-20T04:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/galal-yafai-olympic-champion-stops-tommy-frank-inside-two-minutes\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T04:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:14:44","slug":"galal-yafai-olympic-champion-stops-tommy-frank-inside-two-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/galal-yafai-olympic-champion-stops-tommy-frank-inside-two-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Galal Yafai: Olympic champion stops Tommy Frank inside two minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Galal Yafai now has four stoppages in his five wins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Briton Galal Yafai stopped Tommy Frank in the first round to preserve his unbeaten record as a professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 2020 Olympic champion dismantled Frank inside two minutes in front of his hometown fans at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Yafai, 30, dropped Frank twice before the towel was thrown in.<\/span><\/p>\n

After his fifth win and fourth stoppage victory in just 17 months as a professional, Yafai said he was already “above British level”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There’s also questions marks over me. It’s always ‘he’s getting old or not ready yet’,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There’s levels. I’m not an Olympic gold medallist for nothing. I respect all my opponents but I’m looking at world titles now. <\/span><\/p>\n

“If I don’t get world titles it’s a flop for me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Having debuted in a 10-rounder, Yafai is determined to fast-track himself to world title contention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yafai has insisted this week he is on the <\/span>same level as unbeaten reigning flyweight world champions<\/span><\/a> like Sunny Edwards and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheffield fighter Frank, 30, slumped to the fourth defeat of his career as he struggled to keep pace with Yafai from the first bell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank has won the British flyweight title in the past and Yafai wanted to make short work of his opponent to prove he was a cut above domestic level.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dressed in blue shorts with white and gold trim, Yafai was fighting in Birmingham for the first time in almost a decade and immediately came out swinging – and dropped Frank after swarming him before landing a heavy right hook.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank got back to his feet quickly, but was soon sent back to the canvas by Yafai as the home fighter looked for an early finish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yafai hunted his opponent down, backing him on to the ropes as Frank tried in vain to move out of the way of the attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Yafai was landing regularly and Frank’s corner threw in the towel after just over 90 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yafai’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he will fight on the undercard of <\/span>Edwards’ unification bout<\/span><\/a> against Rodriguez on 16 December in Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hearn, who promotes all three fighters, says he expects Yafai to be in the ring with both men in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s only rounds he needs before he mixes with those guys,” Hearn said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker hands Pattinson his first defeat<\/h3>\n
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Conah Walker was expected to lose to prospect Cyrus Pattinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the main support, Wolverhampton’s Conah Walker pulled off an upset by beating Cyrus Pattinson to win the WBA international welterweight title.<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker, 28, put in a punishing display to drop Pattison three times before the fight was stopped in the eighth round.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pattinson fell to his first defeat of his fledgling career and the Newcastle fighter’s corner threw in the towel to avoid further damage to the novice boxer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker had only won one of his past three outings and said the win meant “everything” to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I knew I was going to win this fight,” Walker said. “I visualised it. You can’t step in there after six fights with a man like me.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m not being big-headed, I’m just being straight up. I work too hard. Listen, I think it showed tonight just how hard I work.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being dropped in the third, fifth and sixth rounds, Pattinson came back into the fight in stages and his promoter Hearn suggested a rematch could happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whenever you see a fight of the year, you look to do it again,” Hearn said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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