Galal Yafai confirms plans to show skilled as Olympic gold medallist hopes to have first struggle earlier than the tip of this 12 months

Galal Yafai has advised talkSPORT that he’ll now flip skilled after profitable novice boxing’s biggest title – an Olympic gold medal.

The Workforce GB fighter beat Philippines’ Carlo Paalam at Tokyo 2020 to win the flyweight gold medal.

He was initially non-committal over whether or not he would quickly be going professional, however has now made up his thoughts.

Yafai advised talkSPORT Combat Evening: “Undoubtedly, I wanna be a world champion man.

“Even earlier than the Olympics I used to be dying to go professional.

“I used to be devastated with the 12 months’s [extra] wait and I believed, ‘I wanna be professional now.’

“I don’t actually like novice boxing, it’s not for me, however as a result of I bought to the Olympics I needed to go.

“And I simply occurred to win gold as properly, so it’s put me in nice stead to hopefully be a world champion.”

Concerning when he intends to start his professional profession, Yafai confinued: “I’m undoubtedly gonna be preventing earlier than the tip of the 12 months, hopefully it goes to plan.

“Coach-wise I’m nonetheless trying round and seeing who might go well with me.

“Tony Sims is a superb coach and a very good individual as properly, I actually like Tony Sims.

“I’ll have a look at all of them and see what occurs.”