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Gamal’s injury heartbreak
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Gamal Yafai is “devastated” after being forced to pull out of his second Commonwealth title defence on Saturday due to a severe ankle injury.
The Commonwealth super-bantamweight champion was preparing to take on Sean Davis in Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena, live on Sky Sports, only to tear ankle ligaments after a freak training accident
Yafai (10-0-KO4) turned his right ankle over doing speed work on Friday and despite constant physio over the weekend, confirmed that he will not be able to defend his strap as chief support for Sam Eggington and Frankie Gavin’s local showdown.
He told Sky Sports: “I am devastated.
“I was in the gym doing speed work with Kal and were doing this box jump things and I went over on my ankle. It was the worst pain ever but we’ve got CCTV cameras in there and looked at it afterwards and it looked so bad, I was lucky it didn’t break.
“It was horrible. I was struggling to breathe it was that bad. It swelled up massively straight away, into two balls. I went to the physio straight away and luckily …
