World IBF champion Sunny Edwards on proving he is the best, fighting Galal Yafai and unifying flyweight division

The most skilled boxer, pound-for-pound, in Britain might just be an 8st, 5ft 3in stylist from Croydon.

Sunny Edwards certainly thinks he is. «Technically, almost definitely,» he said of himself. «Maybe blowing my own trumpet but technically I'm a nightmare.»

So far in his career, IBF flyweight champion Edwards has won almost all his fights well and widely. Saturday night was no different as he outpointed Muhammed Waseem.

«In all my fights that have gone the distance, which is pretty much every single one of them, I've never had one judge score a fight against me. Every one's been a unanimous decision, every one's usually very wide,» he said.

«Why do you think I'm so confident? What evidence have I been given, in sparring as well, to suggest that anyone I'm ever in the ring with has surpassed my level? People get close to it, but no one ever blows me out of the water.»

Edwards, 26, has a particular style to his boxing. He moves deftly on his feet, using sharp reactions to dodge his opponent's shots and land his own quick counter-punches.

Edwards has shown that he can sustain that style for the full 12 rounds of a championship fight.

«I'm very hard to beat,» he said. «I'm not even easy to hit let alone beat. You don't have much of a chance if I don't let you.»

But he's been working on something different too. A new style.

«I've got a lot to my toolbox and I keep showing them one thing,» he said. «I'm going through camps sparring a style different to what I'm fighting. Because I've mastered the hit-and-not-get hit for 12 rounds.

»People say that my sparring is the most intense sparring they've ever seen. I have wars in my spars. I have wars in my spars so I can go and have easy fights."

He's been getting good people in for those