IBF featherweight world champion Kid Galahad wants to go up to super featherweight
Exclusive interview: The IBF champion is interested in joining the divisions.
Whenever a fighter wins a world title in a weight class other than heavyweight, questions are immediately asked if they will go up.
Similar questions have been put to Kid Galahad since he took the vacant IBF world title in featherweight after beating Jazza Dickens at Fight Camp in August last year.
While a transition to super featherweight interests Galahad, he said it will only happen when the time is right.
“We will move up if an opportunity arises, but at the moment we do not have to do that,” Galahad said in an exclusive interview with DAZN.
“I still have to accomplish things in this [featherweight] division. I want to unite this division and win the Ring Magazine belt. I have to make sure I do a job at Kiko Martinez on November 13, otherwise all this will go out the window. ”
Galahad’s attitude is a return to some of the old school fighters who continued to dominate the sport and their respective weight divisions. The Sheffield fighter will try to create his own legacy of 126lbs and not follow the current trend of some modern world champions who in Galahad’s eyes make one or two defenses and disappear.
“Anyone can become world champion, I want to make sure I can remain world champion for a long time, I do not want to be one of those kids who has one or two defenses and disappears.
“I want 10 or 20 defenses of my world title, then I go up to super featherweight, I want to unite this division, do 10/20 defenses, go up and do the same thing again, and you want to leave a statement in the division you is in.
“For me, I would rather have 30 defenses instead of fighting in front of thousands of people.”
Galahad hopes to begin his dominance of the featherweight division on November 13 when he defends his IBF title against Kiko Martinez exclusively at DAZN (except Australia and New Zealand) for the first time.