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No catch, no tricks: Sunny Edwards vs Bam Rodriguez is a rare, special fight

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Sunny Edwards is a flyweight world champion, and that means he weighs in at about 150lb lighter than Tyson Fury. And on Saturday, Edwards travels from his gym in Sheffield to Arizona, to meet the man considered the No 1 flyweight in the world, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez.

But there is far more at stake than a couple of title belts and the right for the winner to call himself the best at his weight, and one of the very best in the world. It is not just a little,

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