Former flyweight champion Sunny Edwards is in Gibraltar, working on the Full Monty Promotions bill topped by brothers Kriss and Evan Montegriffo.<\/p>\n
Both 4-0, Evan is a 27-year-old super middleweight and Kriss if 4-0 at heavyweight.<\/p>\n
There are six bouts on the bill at the Europa Point Sports Complex on Saturday, July 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to a good night of boxing,\u201d Edwards told BoxingScene. \u201cAnd you know, it\u2019ll probably be only after it\u2019s been done and we\u2019ve sort of pulled it off and the dust has settled a bit that I\u2019ll be able to look back on what it was that we\u2019ve just done and the little hurdles that we had to jump and what we pulled together.\u201d
Edwards called the promotion \u201cjust a very small step\u201d and joked: \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to go too big or make out that Eddie [Hearn] or Frank [Warren] need to worry just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The goal is to provide an opportunity for the brothers to make Gibraltar a hub of sorts, working with the Gibraltar National Boxing Association, the amateurs team, the national team, the brothers and their gym and their father, as well as the other gyms in Gibraltar.<\/p>\n
Of course, the goal is to build champions, but also contribute to shaping the fight community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s definitely a thirst for it, there’s a hunger for it, there’s a buzz for it. You know, Djibouti hasn’t always got the most of entertainment and tourism, should we say, they have to go to Spain a lot, or the UK a lot to, I don’t know, see the biggest acts or the biggest sporting events, etc. So, if we can really build something in the territory, we\u2019ve got the support from the chief minister, we\u2019ve got the support from many local businesses and the territory really, it\u2019s really all coming together. We\u2019re right at the eve now, so I don\u2019t want to speak too soon and the lights don\u2019t even turn on or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards said he is looking forward to what he calls \u201cbeing on the other side of the curtain\u201d and the idea is to build the Montegriffos in Gibraltar first.<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally, [the future is] setting up and genuinely benefiting off having a home advantage and a home territory of being able to put the show on, on dates that work for the fighters and take the career at their pace rather than sort of like desperately waiting to see what comes through.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it usually gives careers a little bit more legs when you have that sort of home support and also when it comes to time to fight for titles or looking to put bigger fights on, having that, we can make an offer to make a bigger fight, a title fight, and then have it on our sort of home advantage. We\u2019ve got some plans for the near future and what we\u2019d like to do regarding the promotion, as long as everything goes well with this one. <\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t want to go too big right now. It\u2019s one show at a time and, the hub, the center is building it, trying to build it in Gibraltar. And then, after executing that, looking to maybe spread a little bit wider. I\u2019ve got a lot of fighters that I work with in territories up and down the UK. And I know for a fact that if some of my fighters didn\u2019t have something lined up, I know I could put a good show together with a few of them. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019d be a proper fight card and some real good talent and built up fighters. And I would love to get to the stage where the promotion is running four, six, eight shows, a few different territories over the year and I haven\u2019t got to keep going to promoters with my hands out in the air, asking for an opportunity for a lad that deserves one, trying to make it make sense. <\/p>\n
“It just gets a bit frustrating and a bit disheartening for the fighter when not only are they training and worrying about fighting in front of loads of people and being on weight and every other thing that comes with boxing, they\u2019re getting hounded by the promoter and their manager and everyone about tickets because they promised that they would sell 250 and they’ve only sold 100. So we\u2019re trying to obviously make the show work, but at the same time, do everything in a reasonable manner where we\u2019re not biting off too much more than we can chew.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former flyweight champion Sunny Edwards is in Gibraltar, working on the Full Monty Promotions bill topped by brothers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,101,228568,228569,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-sports","tag-sunny-edwards","tag-sunny-edwards-promoter","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685381","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=685381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}