{"id":585518,"date":"2026-05-15T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:23:08","slug":"yafai-vs-sandoval-galal-yafai-pulls-out-of-world-title-fight-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585518\/","title":{"rendered":"Yafai vs Sandoval: Galal Yafai pulls out of world title fight with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galal Yafai&#8217;s bout with unified flyweight world champion Ricardo Sandoval has been postponed after the Briton sustained an injury in training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second time the 6 June card in Sheffield has lost its headliner, after British WBC light-welterweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c04x4kq2xneo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dalton Smith pulled out of his defence<\/a> against Alberto Puello through injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yafai, 33, has not fought since losing to Francisco Rodriguez Jr in June &#8211; although the result was overturned to a no-contest after the Mexican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp90j4pdgnyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed a drugs test.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Birmingham fighter, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is undefeated in 10 fights as a professional &#8211; with seven of his nine victories coming inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next month&#8217;s event at Utilita Arena will still go ahead, with Josh Padley&#8217;s European super-featherweight title defence against Aqib Fiaz now topping the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galal Yafai&#8217;s bout with unified flyweight world champion Ricardo Sandoval has been postponed after the Briton sustained an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}