HE’LL BE BACK

ROMAN GONZALEZ is a legend for a reason. In February Kal Yafai discovered exactly why in a gruelling nine round fight for his WBA super-flyweight title. “He was an elite fighter. The little things that he does, 99 per cent of the time if I see that left hook to the body and I’m able to land, I’m going to land it. But with him he’d leave the opening there and by the time I’ve seen and I’ve thrown it - I’d throw it and he’s open - but then when it comes to landing, it’s landing on an elbow, because he just moved his elbow an inch and deflected the shot,” Yafai tells Boxing News. “He was just a quality operator. Everything I done on the night he had an answer for.

“When I look back on the fight, I think, ‘Yeah you f**ker, that’s good, man’.”

But he does not regret it. “Some people ask me why did you chase the fight? Why did you want that fight so much? One, I always thought I could win the fight. I always knew