{"id":18590,"date":"2026-02-04T04:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18590"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:53:27","slug":"rhys-edwards-welsh-featherweight-to-fight-gully-powar-for-british-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18590","title":{"rendered":"Rhys Edwards: Welsh featherweight to fight Gully Powar for British title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Welshman Rhys Edwards will fight for a British title when he faces Gully Powar on the undercard of <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cn8jk2y22meo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lauren Price&#8217;s world title defence<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> against Stephanie Aquino on 4 April in Cardiff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards will challenge for the featherweight title at the Utilita Arena, which will be shown live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 20:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards, 25, says the opportunity is a career culmination for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Winning the British title has been a dream since I first started boxing,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked my whole career for this moment, and now it&#8217;s time to make it count. To get this opportunity at home in Wales is a special feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards has just one defeat on his record, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy894p2v19po\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">coming against Peter McGrail<\/a> in 2024, but bounced back with a routine win over Thomas Essomba last June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolverhampton fighter Powar, 23, is still making a name for himself in the division after catching the eye while competing in the WBC Boxing Grand Prix last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powar has 13 wins and one loss in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is my time to shine. I&#8217;ve been putting in the work behind the scenes and now everyone gets to see what I&#8217;m about,&#8221; Powar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I respect Rhys, but I&#8217;m coming to Cardiff to take that British title home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Shalom, who promotes Edwards, described the contest as &#8220;a fantastic British title fight between two young, hungry fighters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c9vxzrv3mylo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welshman Rhys Edwards will fig&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}