{"id":29642,"date":"2026-05-17T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/yafai-vs-sandoval-galal-yafai-pulls-out-of-world-title-fight-with-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:48:44","slug":"yafai-vs-sandoval-galal-yafai-pulls-out-of-world-title-fight-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/yafai-vs-sandoval-galal-yafai-pulls-out-of-world-title-fight-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yafai vs Sandoval: Galal Yafai pulls out of world title fight with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Galal Yafai&#8217;s bout with unified flyweight world champion Ricardo Sandoval has been postponed after the Briton sustained an injury in training.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second time the 6 June card in Sheffield has lost its headliner, after British WBC light-welterweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c04x4kq2xneo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Dalton Smith pulled out of his defence<\/a> against Alberto Puello through injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yafai, 33, has not fought since losing to Francisco Rodriguez Jr in June &#8211; although the result was overturned to a no-contest after the Mexican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp90j4pdgnyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">failed a drugs test.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Birmingham fighter, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is undefeated in 10 fights as a professional &#8211; with seven of his nine victories coming inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next month&#8217;s event at Utilita Arena will still go ahead, with Josh Padley&#8217;s European super-featherweight title defence against Aqib Fiaz now topping the bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvgzqp17ryxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galal Yafai&#8217;s bout with unified flyweight world champion Ricardo Sandoval has been postponed after the Briton sustained an injury in training. It is the second time the 6 June card in Sheffield has lost its headliner, after British WBC light-welterweight champion Dalton Smith pulled out of his defence against Alberto Puello through injury. Yafai, 33, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29644,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions\/29644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}