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Former WBA super-flyweight champion Kal Yafai has retired after losing against Jonathan Rodriguez.<\/span><\/p>\n Rodriguez put Yafai on the canvas twice before the referee stopped the contest in round one at YouTube Theater, Inglewood in California on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Briton Yafai, 34, was the WBA super-flyweight champion between 2016 and 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n “This was the end before the fight anyway,” Yafai told DAZN after his defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n Pointing at the inner lining of his shorts, Yafai added: “I had it on here ‘the last dance’, I had it engraved in my shorts. I knew I was coming to the end anyway.”<\/span><\/p>\n After beating Luis Concepcion via unanimous decision to win the vacant WBA super-flyweight strap in 2016, Yafai made five successful defences of his belt before losing the title following a TKO defeat against Roman Gonzalez.<\/span><\/p>\n Birmingham’s Yafai represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics and he won a silver medal at the 2010 European Games in Moscow, Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n After turning professional in 2012, Yafai went on to win super-flyweight titles at British, Commonwealth and Inter-Continental levels prior to claiming his world title.<\/span><\/p>\n Yafai won 27 of his 29 professional bouts, picking up 15 of those victories inside the distance.<\/span><\/p>\n