IBF flyweight champion Sunny ‘Showtime’ Edwards 19-0 (4) is demanding a unification bout once he turns back the challenge of Chile’s undefeated Andres Campos 15-0 (4) at Wembley Arena in London this Saturday night.
The obvious target is his stablemate and WBC flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez 20-2 (15) of Mexico.
“There’s nowhere for the other champions to hide now,” said Edwards. “One at a time, they will get their turn. What I do is different to anything anyone else does in a boxing ring.
“The world is waiting, and I think right now I am the number one flyweight in the world. I would argue that I am one of the best flyweights in the world.
“Fight night is my best night of my year, better than my birthday and better than Christmas, it’s the best night of the year. I think Eddie, and the rest of Matchroom and DAZN, they genuinely know that with me, they get a fighter that wants to fight and will fight anyone. I am Sunny ‘Showtime’ Edwards – IBF flyweight world champion and the best flyweight in the world.”
The 27-year-old Edwards who boxes out of Sheffield, England, narrowly missed out on the opportunity for face Martinez in November 2021 when the 28-year-old opted to face mandatory challenger McWilliams Arroyo instead.
In his following bout he lost to the great Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez in a non-title bout at 115-pounds before defending his flyweight crown against Samuel Carmona and Ronal Batista last year.
“It’s not just that I want all of the belts, I don’t want anyone else to have them,” said Edwards. “It sickens me, it pains me that there’s three other people at my weight that walk around saying the same shit that I say.
“The fact that with professional boxing you can’t force someone in the ring with you and they can go around showing off a belt, like look at Martinez for fucks sake – that’s terrible.
“I genuinely believe, how can he even consider himself a world champion? He won it as a vacant title, failed a drugs test, same fights rescheduled, rescheduled, rescheduled, fighting easy opposition that I’d get slaughtered for. Every single fight that he gets is easy, terrible records like 11-3 and 15-7, like what? You’re meant to be a world champion.
“You’re walking around trying to tell people that you’re anywhere near the fighter that I am. Really, there are people that would agree because he’s a world champion at flyweight. Boxing is just obsolete because you have these world champions headlocking world titles, headlocking good contracts and just taking easy fights. That kills the sport.”
But before Edwards can fulfill his dreams on unification, he must first get past the 26-year-old Campos.
“I’m fighting Andres Campos from Chile and outside of him and his fans, abusing me on Instagram for the last however many years, I don’t really know too much about him,” Edwards said.
“I don’t really care about knowing too much about him. When I get in there it’s the Sunny show. It’s showtime and there’s no time like showtime. When I get in there, it’s whatever I want it to be. I don’t focus on him. I don’t need to talk about him.”
