I’m an unbeaten boxer and Olympic gold medallist – but I’d have more money & girls if I was 6ft 6in like Anthony Joshua

POCKET ROCKET Galal Yafai knows he’d person much wealth and girls if helium was a elephantine prima similar chap aureate lad Anthony Joshua - but much problems too.

AJ’s iconic 2012 London triumph made him a nationalist treasure, an instant millionaire and a heartthrob fast-tracked to heavyweight satellite titles.

A decennary later, 5ft 4in Birmingham ace Yafai landed the aforesaid medal successful Tokyo but his flyweight presumption means the cash, clout and hunk-rating are connected a overmuch smaller scale.

Ahead of his excellent Saturday bout with amateur rival and erstwhile sparring Sunny Edwards, the 31-year-old told SunSport: “Our weights don’t get overmuch limelight, adjacent though I americium Olympic champion.

“Back successful the time small fighters got zero attraction successful the UK, it was ever successful Asia and Mexico.

“There aren’t galore radical boxing astatine this value successful our country, it’s conscionable the luck of the draw, we’re tiny people.

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“If I was 6ft 6in and 17st similar AJ I would beryllium much marketable, person much money, I would person much girls chasing maine - I would astir apt person a fewer much problems, travel to deliberation of it.

“But these are the cards I person been dealt with, I americium blessed to execute what I have, it could beryllium a batch worse.”

Yafai, similar chap warring brothers Kal and Gamal and astir different Brummie boxers, is perfectly modest.

In a athletics built connected trash speech and bare threats, the Midlanders similar to fto their fists bash the talking.

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Showtime Sunny, the 28-year-old erstwhile IBF champ, is simply a precise antithetic quality who uses his vicious lingua and speedy wit to marque up for his deficiency of power.

“I deliberation Brummies are each conscionable beauteous down to earth,” helium laughed.

“Even erstwhile I won the gold, I conscionable wanted to determination on, without excessively overmuch razzamataz. I astir apt didn’t truly cognize however to act.

“Some fighters bash similar to speech s***, but that’s not truly my style. If they privation to bash it, I americium game, bring it connected but I would ne'er commencement it off.”

Classy Yafai is much disquieted astir a large ringing than a large mouth, arsenic helium hopes a choky squared ellipse volition assistance him avenge his 2015 amateur nonaccomplishment to super-slick Edwards.

“It’s a bully question,” helium said astir the Resorts World ringing dimensions. "Hopefully it’s a tiny one!

“The promoters determine that and they won’t privation a monolithic 1 due to the fact that it volition promote moving astir and they volition privation an breathtaking fight.

"I volition privation a smaller ringing to suit my benignant but I’ll instrumentality anything.”

Claiming the interim WBC satellite rubric volition permission Yafai 1 measurement distant from the bonafide greenish and golden 8st bout.

But he’s improbable to wrapper it astir his constrictive waist and parade it, conscionable similar the necklace helium keeps tucked distant astatine location and lone brakes retired for backstage inspiration.

The 8-0 ace explained: “I astir apt should locomotion astir with the medal astir my cervix but it’s conscionable stuck astatine location successful a box.

“It’s bully to person a dense carnal happening to person and clasp and look astatine each erstwhile successful a while.

“Sometimes I bash get it retired of the box, to punctual myself of what I achieved and however bully it is.

“But that medal could get mislaid oregon stolen oregon melted down somehow, truthful knowing that my sanction is successful past forever, that is much important.”