Kal Yafai is ready to show WBA champion Kohei Kono just how good he is

Kal Yafai is out to put on a show as he fights a world title eliminator in Birmingham on Saturday night.

The super-flyweight star will get a crack at WBA world champion Kohei Kono in the summer, providing he gets past the tough Dixon Flores, live on Sky Sports.

Yafai (17-0-KO11) can pick up the WBA Inter-Continental title as well but knows stealing the show from Sam Eggington and Bradley Skeete's top-of-the bill clash at the Genting Arena, Birmingham, will send out a warning to the Japanese world champion.

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"I will be getting a shot at the Japanese lad, Kono, so I obviously want to do a job on Saturday and look good doing it," he told Sky Sports.

"Kono is a very tough, experienced fighter but he has been beaten eight times.

"I watched him fight Koki Kameda when Nathan Cleverly boxed Andrzej Fonfara and Eddie (Hearn) was there watching and he did tell me that's the target.

"That's the one we want, because I think I will do him. I've seen enough to know there are some chinks in his armour. I am hoping we can sort it by the summer."

That's the one we want, because I think I will do him. I've seen enough to know there are some chinks in his armour. I am hoping we can sort it by the summer

Yafai would prefer to bring Kono to these shores as he bids to become Birmingham's first world champion. Koko (31-8-KO13) was involved in one of the fights of 2015 when he travelled to Texas to face Kameda as chief support to Cleverly's sensational scrap against Fonfara on October.

The 26-year-old is hopeful promoter Hearn will be able to bring the champion over to these shores but knows he cannot afford to make any mistakes against Flores (12-3-KO4) in the eliminator - the fifth time he has faced someone from the Central American country.

Yafai has given himself the nickname of 'The Nicaraguan Slayer' in the build-up and believes he will make it five out of five in style on Saturday night.

"I've seen quite a bit of Flores," he said.

"He looks pretty aggressive early on, comes forward, puts his punches together very well and is game. But how long it lasts, depends on me. My last fight, against Jason Cunningham, went 12 rounds but the two before that ended in a round.

"I will make sure this won't go 12. I will put on a show."

Watch Kal Yafai v Dixon Flores before the main event, Sam Eggington v Bradley Skeete, live on Sky Sports 1, from 8pm on Saturday.