Sunny Edwards has only been retired from boxing for 18 months but he already has his hands full.<\/p>\n
The former IBF flyweight champion, who lives in London but trained out of Sheffield with Grant Smith, is wearing many hats now he no longer wears the gloves.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, at one point I was a fighter,\u201d the 21-2 (4 KOs) Edwards told BoxingScene. \u201cBefore that, I was a fighter. My older brother [Charlie] would do it. And then I was a fighter myself. I help manage fighters. I help train fighters. I don\u2019t train fighters full time, but I sort of dabble a little bit in everything. I commentate. I do a lot of the media stuff. So it\u2019s just really a 360 deal with me of boxing. Anything I feel like I can genuinely add value and execute what I\u2019m setting out to do, then I have every confidence in attempting to do so. It\u2019s almost like the other side of everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards lost his title to the brilliant Bam Rodriguez in 2023 in Arizona, and two fights later lost to domestic rival Galal Yafai in Birmingham. He walked away and never turned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, it\u2019s a big part, the other side [of boxing],\u201d he added. \u201cAnd working with a lot of fighters and keeping them active and keeping them happy and regularly fighting, you realise you\u2019re going through the same sort of process over and over again. And if I\u2019m in a position to set up my own established shows where I don\u2019t have to go and ask for the favours to bring a fighter through and put on good events in the right locations around the right fighters, then I see no reason why not. Obviously, there\u2019s always a restriction on my time where I am spinning [different] plates. But with the right people doing a lot of the groundwork and with a good team and all heading in the right direction\u2026 Everything\u2019s going okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards said he had no major plan for his post-boxing career, whether it was passing on his knowledge to the next generation or imparting it to a TV audience. He has just \u201corganically\u201d remained involved. He\u2019s commentating on DAZN, he\u2019s involved with managing some 20 fighters and he\u2019s helping stage shows, such as the Full Monty Show in Gibraltar over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Still only 30, Edwards added: \u201cAnd when I\u2019m focusing on each area, I do what I can do the best on and sort of overseeing it in a way there where I\u2019m letting the other people do what they need to do as well. Then I\u2019m not wasting my time and my boxing resources. I don\u2019t know, [it could be] having meetings perhaps with the venue where we\u2019ve got someone more than capable, [with a] strong relationship that can have that conversation. I think with the right delegation, I\u2019m just being able to kind of stretch my legs wherever I need to at the moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do think I\u2019ll settle eventually and I think it will be probably [with] training [fighters]. Coaching will probably be where I look to settle for the rest of it. I do like commentary though, is what I\u2019ll say, but the managing and the sort of promoting and you\u2019re close to the journey and it means something to you, you\u2019re passionate about it. So they all sort of have their differences and also probably how much mental energy and time it takes. So yeah, it\u2019s been good balancing it, but I\u2019m working with a lot of good people that understand that I can\u2019t always be just 100 per cent focused on this, but where I can be, I do give it my best attention and try and deliver as best as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunny Edwards has only been retired from boxing for 18 months but he already has his hands full.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,42290,4204,101,228568,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-scene","tag-retirement","tag-sports","tag-sunny-edwards","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689897","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=689897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}