Everything you need to know about Sunny Edwards vs Jayson Mama
Sunny Edwards (16-0, 4KOs) is back from injury to defend his IBF flyweight title on Saturday, December 11 at the Coca Cola Arena in Dubai against mandatory challenger Jayson Mama (16-0, 9KOs).
The champion suffered an unfortunate ankle injury, which caused the original September 11 date to be put back three months to ensure he could get back to full fitness.
The unbeaten Briton will hope to impress ahead of a potential unification fight in 2022, but 24-year-old Filipino Mama is the first fighter in the way of those goals.
'Shotime' Edwards hopes to win this mandatory defence to pursue a tilt at unifying the division, then move on to face Julio Cesar Martinez.
Here's everything you need to know about Edwards vs. Mama:
Date, Time, Venue
Date: Saturday, December 11
Main card: 8pm local time/3pm GMT
Main Event: 9pm local time/4m GMT
Venue: Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
TV Channel
USA: AXS TV
UK: BoxNation (from 4:30pm) & FreeSports* from 5.30pm
SUNNY EDWARDS
Nationality: British
Date of Birth: January 1, 1996
Height: 5'3"
Reach: N/A
Total Fights: 16
Record: 16-0 (4 KOs)
JAYSON MAMA
Nationality: Filipino
Date of Birth: May 17, 1997
Height: 5'4"
Reach: 63ins
Total Fights: 16
Record: 16-0 (9 KOs)
Undercard
Sunny Edwards vs. Jayson Mama
12×3 IBF World flyweight title
John Riel Casemiro vs. Paul Butler
12×3 WBO bantamweight title
Donnie Nietes vs. Norbelto Jimenez
12×3 WBO International super-flyweight title
Jono Carroll vs. Aelio Mesquita
8×3 Lightweight contest
Hasibullah Ahmadi vs. Nadir Baloch
8×3 WBC Asian Boxing Council Featherweight contest
Rohan Date vs. Kelvin Dotel
6×3 Welterweight contest
Bakhodir Jalolov vs. Julio Cesar Calimeno
6×3 Heavyweight contest
Anthony de Bruijn vs. Diego Valtierra
6×3 Super-featherweight contest
Sultan Al Nuaimi vs. Sahil Rahman N
4×3 Super-flyweight contest
Fahad Al Boushi vs. Kamarudeen Boyefio
4×3 Super-featherweight contest
*FreeSports is available as a free to air sports channel operating in the UK on Sky HD Channel 422, Virgin TV HD Channel 553, Freeview Channel 64, BT/TalkTalk Channel 64, Samsung TV Plus and online via the FreeSports Player. Premier Sports 2 is available on Sky channel 429, Virgin TV 552 while BoxNation is on Sky channel 427, BT/TalkTalk channel 415 and Virgin TV channel 546. Premier Sports and BoxNation are both available via online streaming on the Premier Player.
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