{"id":358418,"date":"2025-12-20T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:31:07","slug":"boxing-adam-azim-to-fight-on-bbc-two-against-gustavo-lemos-on-31-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358418\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Adam Azim to fight on BBC Two against Gustavo Lemos on 31 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British light-welterweight Adam Azim will face Argentina&#8217;s Gustavo Lemos live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on 31 January at the Copper Box Arena in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the second time in 20 years that professional boxing has been on primetime linear BBC television after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g43gxjvd5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeamie &#8216;TKV&#8217; Tshikeva and Frazer Clarke<\/a> launched the BBC&#8217;s partnership with Boxxer last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Azim v Lemos will feature an undercard led by unbeaten British bantamweight Francesca Hennessy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She fights Ellie Boutell in a final eliminator for the WBC bantamweight title held by Cherneka Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Azim, 23, has won all 14 of his fights, with 11 coming by way of knockout, but is taking a step up as he looks to put himself into world title contention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The light-welterweight was last in action on the undercard of Conor Benn&#8217;s victory over Chris Eubank Jr in November with a punch-perfect display against American Kurt Scoby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British light-welterweight Adam Azim will face Argentina&#8217;s Gustavo Lemos live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on 31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}