By Jeff Powell For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:30 GMT, 24 March 2019 | Updated: 22:57 GMT, 24 March 2019
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Charlie Edwards put on the Saturday night razzle-dazzle to become the first of Britain's new generation of ring-stars in the making not only to win but now successfully defend a world title.
The dazzle was brilliant as the WBC fly-weight champion took a walk in the Olympic Park to shut-out victory over Spanish challenger Angel Moreno.
The razzle cast an unwelcome shadow over a performance which should have been remembered solely for the skills upon which Edwards may indeed build a pedestal in the boxing pantheon which is his ambition.
Charlie Edwards put on the Saturday night razzle-dazzle to successfully defend his world title
Master Edwards is an exciting young talent. Charlie Boy must not spoil his own future.
The blistering speed of hand and foot, along with the ring-craft, won every round in a unanimous points decision magnified to 120-107 by a questionable knock-down awarded even though Moreno appeared to slip.
The self-indulgent show-boating was an unnecessary distraction from his potential.
Edwards took time out from his virtual master-class by copying the way Billy Joe Saunders sometimes poses to
