On April 30, 2021, Moruti Mthalane (39-2, 26 KOs), the flyweight IBF champion, defends his title against English challenger, Sunny Edwards (15-0, 4 KOs).
Moruti Mthalane is coming in to the fight on a 16-fight win streak with a 63% KO rate; his last fight was a 9th round TKO victory over Akira Yaegashi, 1 year, 4 months, and 7 days ago. Sunny Edwards is on a 15-fight win streak with a 26% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Thomas Essomba, 8 months and 1 day ago.
The winning odds are at 61.2-38.8 in favor of Sunny Edwards. Moruti Mthalane also has a chance at winning but he will have to put up a really good fight to get the win.
Sunny Edwards defeated Moruti Mthalane via unanimous decision and wins the IBF title — in his first world-title fight. Edwards improves his record to 16-0, while Mthalane adds a loss to his record at 39-3.