Charlie Edwards – ‘My brother is a liar’

IT’S not so way back that you just’d spot Sunny Edwards at ringside, cheering on his brother Charlie, and vice-versa. At the moment, the pair will not be talking to one another, with stories suggesting a prize battle between the brothers might observe.

Each have mentioned they’d take the battle if it might be made, however Sunny’s claim in a recent Boxing News article that it’s Charlie doing the chasing has been rejected by the older sibling.

Eager for his facet of the story to be heard, Charlie informed BN: “Smoke and mirrors is a liar. It’s humorous since you ought to by no means imagine the whole lot that comes out of his mouth, it’s throughout exaggerated and nearly all of it’s lies. However as soon as you realize him [you] see via the bullshit.”

Sunny prompt final week that the pair haven’t sparred for a number of years as a result of he was getting the higher of issues. “After I was 14, 15, 16 I used to be mixing it with my brother who was three years older than me,” Sunny mentioned. “At aged 18, he stopped ever eager to spar me once more. I wasn’t invited to spar him.”

Nonetheless, Charlie this week despatched BN pictures that verify they had been sparring one another as just lately as August 2020 – at Sheffield’s Metal Metropolis fitness center – when Sunny was 24 and Charlie was 27. “For those who verify the date you’ll quickly realise how a lot shit Sunny chats,” Charlie mentioned.

Sunny additionally prompt that his latest transfer to Matchroom, Charlie’s former promoters, had stirred the pot additional. “I believe he’s [Charlie] a clout-chaser and that’s what that is about,” Sunny mentioned. “It might need damage him a bit of bit that I simply signed along with his outdated promoter [Matchroom] and he needed a little bit of consideration. Who would begrudge him that? I’d hate to be my brother too.

Eddie Hearn and Sunny Edwards (Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing)

“In the beginning, he must work his approach up the rankings. He’s in the course of obscurity in the intervening time, to be calling my identify once I’m prime of the sport, world champion with numerous profession prospects and storylines.

“There’s an excessive amount of in entrance of me and never sufficient in entrance of him. He wasn’t calling out his little brother when he was world champion, he didn’t give me a world title shot did he? And if he did, I’d have taken it off him then. Cheeky c**t. And he is aware of it as nicely. If I ever get provided it, don’t assume I’m turning it down however I don’t assume I’ll get it provided.”

To that, Charlie responded: “Sufficient of the bullshit. When he’s able to step as much as bantamweight we are able to discuss preventing severely. Till then he must deal with cleansing up the flyweight division. However I’m able to have negotiations wherever and that’s the top of it, no clout-chasing from my finish!”

Curiously, it’s eight years in the past this week when Sunny made one of his first appearances in BN as a 19-year-old newbie. Although the sibling rivalry was clear again then, so too was the respect. “It’s at all times good having him [Charlie] there now and now I’m a senior he’s a correct sparring associate. We go full tilt. After I was youthful we couldn’t do this. I’ve the very best sparring I might ask for,” Sunny mentioned again then earlier than admitting that following in his brother’s footsteps will get “annoying as a result of I get it lots, it’s all about my brother. I do get that lots however it’s as a result of he’s there, he’s helped me via it.”