Sunny Edwards: World champion does not rule out future fight with brother Charlie

Most brothers fight, but Sunny and Charlie Edwards could extremity up taking sibling rivalry to a full different level.

But the 27-year-old has not ruled retired facing Charlie, 30, successful the aboriginal aft being called retired by his older brother.

"In this day, there's a saying that radical volition dice for clout - I deliberation sometimes radical privation attraction erstwhile they haven't got it arsenic much," Sunny told BBC Sport.

"I would combat anyone. I've spent my full beingness warring him successful the ringing and sparring him.

"Whether it really happens. oregon a governing assemblage allows 2 brothers to fight, and whether the 2 of america would ever privation it, I don't know."

Sunny volition marque a sixth defence of his IBF rubric against Chilean Campos, who is undefeated successful 15 pro fights.

He headlines a world-title triple header, with Ellie Scotney challenging for Cherneka Johnson's IBF super-bantamweight loop and Nina Hughes defending her WBA bantamweight rubric against Katie Healy.

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From brotherly emotion to swinging gloves

Sunny Edwards (left) has won each 19 fights since turning nonrecreational successful 2016

Sunny and Charlie were not connected speaking presumption agelong earlier the the household feud soon spilled into the nationalist domain.

When Sunny signed with Matchroom Boxing earlier this year, Charlie - a erstwhile WBC flyweight satellite champion - did congratulate his brother.

But helium past added: "When you're acceptable to get the existent large combat on, get connected the telephone Eddie [Hearn, Matchroom promoter], springiness maine a call."

Charlie vacated his satellite rubric successful 2019, citing issues with making the 112lb weight.

He has since jumped up 2 divisions to bantamweight and, having not fought successful 18 months, made a low-key instrumentality to the ringing successful an untelevised tiny hallway amusement successful Manchester, beating Peruvian Darwin Perez connected points.

"I conscionable anticipation helium gets to a spot wherever helium doesn't consciousness the request to telephone retired his small brother," Sunny said.

"There's 1,500 bantamweights successful the satellite and I've not heard him telephone immoderate of them - and he's calling retired a flyweight."

Sunny has besides offered to negociate Charlie's vocation arsenic helium added: "I bash emotion my brother. I deliberation he's flawed, arsenic are we each successful this life. No quality is made perfect.

"Right present though I deliberation a batch of fighters could larn of the communicative of Charlie Edwards. You can't get comfy reasoning you've got determination and going to enactment there. Rent is owed each the time. You can't spell 18 months off."

'It's gone a small spot nasty' - Hearn

Former flyweight satellite chamion Charlie Edwards has won 17 fights and mislaid one

Following Juan Manuel and Rafael Marquez, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, Michael and Leon Spinks, the athletics boasts a affluent past of brothers who boxed astatine the highest level.

While the Klitschkos kept a committedness to their parent ne'er to combat each other, Sunny and Charlie's begetter Larry Edwards has ever wanted his sons to spell caput to head.

Some fans, though, consciousness it would discredit the athletics and its values. They accidental it is simply a reflection of the modern epoch and liken it to the satellite of YouTuber boxing wherever amusement and attracting precocious viewing figures often trumps what whitethorn beryllium the champion result for the sport.

Hearn is successful 2 minds connected whether helium would beforehand Edwards v Edwards.

"I don't similar it, I ne'er deliberation families should argue, fto unsocial fight. It's ne'er been done before, arsenic I recognize it, astatine that level," helium told BBC Sport.

"My archetypal absorption would be, "guys, tin you travel into the bureau and effort to benignant this out", but it seems it's gone a small spot nasty."

After a abbreviated pause, Hearn did judge a combat betwixt the brace "would bash unbelievable numbers".

He added: "You're seeing each these YouTubers and radical who can't fight, truthful to spot brothers situation each different for a satellite title, 1 a erstwhile champion, I person to beryllium honest, I haven't truly liked this each along, but erstwhile I conscionable said that I really recovered it rather intriguing."

'Elite' Sunny looks to impressment connected caller platform

Sunny Edwards (photobombing astatine the back) defends his satellite rubric for the 4th time

There are 2 sides to Sunny. The witty, jovial quality who seems to bask engaging successful Twitter backmost and distant with fans, oregon the combatant who erstwhile invited a troll to the gym to settee their differences successful a ring.

At Wednesday's face-to-face promotion, an aggrieved Sunny knocked Campos' chapeau disconnected his head.

"Sunny Edwards volition bash what helium wants to do. Liked, hated, helium doesn't attraction - but this kid tin fight," Hearn said.

"A batch of radical speech the speech and are controversial, but they're not elite. This is idiosyncratic who backs it up. Just fto him beryllium Sunny Edwards."

Croydon combatant Sunny - antecedently signed to the now-defunct promotional outfit Probellum - volition beryllium boxing nether the Matchroom banner for the archetypal clip and says determination is "an aerial of caller beingness blown into my career".

He is nary longer associated with Daniel Kinahan and promotional and absorption institution MTK Global.

Irishman Kinahan was sanctioned by US authorities past year, accused of being a cardinal fig of a planetary organised transgression group.

Sunny said: "I'm present connected a caller platform, caller broadcaster, possibly caller eyes - I'm trying to truly impressment arsenic good arsenic conscionable win."