Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez Jr. live results, round-by-round updates, ring walks, start time for WBC interim title fight
Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez Jr. goes down Saturday for the interim WBC super flyweight title in Birmingham, England.
Uncrowned has Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez Jr. live results, round-by-round updates, highlights, ring walks and start time for the Yafai vs. Rodriguez Jr. fight card on Saturday afternoon at the BP Pulse Live Arena in Birmingham, England. In the night's main event, Britain's Yafai defends his WBC interim flyweight title against Mexico's Rodriguez Jr.
Yafai (9-0, 7 KOs), a 2020 Olympic gold medalist, captured the WBC interim title with a one-sided beatdown that ended with a sixth-round TKO win over Sunny Edwards this past November.
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Rodriguez Jr. (39-6-1, 27 KOs) held the unified strawweight championship in 2014. He has also previously challenged for light flyweight and super flyweight world titles.
The winner of Yafai vs. Rodriguez Jr. will be the mandatory challenger to unified flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji.
Also on the card, Conah Walker (15-3-1, 6 KOs) defends his British welterweight title against Liam Taylor (28-2-1, 14 KOs), and Peter McGrail (11-1, 6 KOs) faces the battle-hardened Ionut Baluta (17-5-1, 3 KOs).
The Yafai vs. Rodríguez Jr. prelims begin at 11:30 a.m. ET and can be watched live on Uncrowned below.
The main card starts at 2 p.m. ET on DAZN, with main event ring walks expected at around 5 p.m. ET.
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Follow all of the action with Uncrowned's live results and play-by-play of the main card below.
Main Card (2 p.m. ET, DAZN)
WBC interim flyweight title: Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez
Welterweight: Conah Walker vs. Liam Taylor
Super bantamweight: Peter McGrail vs. Ionut Baluta
Cruiserweight: Pat Brown vs. Ivan Duka
Super bantamweight: Tiah Ayton vs. Sara Orszagi
Prelims (11:30 a.m. ET, Watch via Uncrowned)
Middleweight: Aaron Bowen vs. Mykola Vovk
Super featherweight: Giorgio Visioli vs. Elias Federico Duguet
Super featherweight: Ibraheem Sulaimaan vs. Brian Phillips
Flyweight: Hamza Uddin vs. Leandro Jose Blanc
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