Galal Yafai

Galal Yafai is one of those fighters who makes you realize how much heart gets packed into a small frame — at 158 cm, he's not the biggest guy in the room, but he absolutely owns the ring. Growing up in Birmingham, a city that breeds toughness, he came up through amateur boxing and quietly built one of the most decorated records in British boxing: silver at the 2017 European Championships, gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and then the whole thing capped with Olympic gold at the Tokyo 2020 Games in the flyweight division. That's a career many fighters dream about, and he pulled it off before turning thirty. The 2022 MBE was a nice touch of official recognition, and picking up the WBC interim flyweight title in late 2024 shows he's not coasting on amateur glory — he's genuinely coming for the pro ranks too. I'm rooting for him to unify titles.

Name (English)

Galal Yafai

Name (Japanese)

ガラル・ヤファイ

Reading

がらる・やふぁい

Born

December 11, 1992 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Origin

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Height

158 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• 2022 Member of the Order of the British Empire

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/galalyafai/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4

Tags

• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.