Jan 25, 2026, 07:54 AM ETAdam Azim was injured in his final sparring session.\u00a0Adam Davy\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Adam Azim’s fight against Gustavo Lemos, which was scheduled for Jan. 31 in London, is off with both fighters sustaining injuries, Boxxer have confirmed.<\/p>\n
Brit Azim (14-0, 11 KOs) was in line to fight Argentine Lemos (30-2, 20 KOs) for the IBF No. 2 junior welterweight position at the Copperbox Arena.<\/p>\n
Boxxer have confirmed Lemos initially sustained a hand injury, with a replacement sought before Azim then picked up an injury of his own.<\/p>\n
The fight will be rescheduled, although a date has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n
The show next Saturday could still go ahead with Francesca Hennessy’s bantamweight bout against fellow unbeaten Brit Ellie Bouttell as the headline event, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n
The fight is for the vacant WBC silver title with the winner potentially in line for a clash with undisputed women’s bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson.<\/p>\n
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“The IBF No.2 eliminator, set for Saturday, January 31, will be rescheduled after both fighters sustained injuries in training,” Boxxer confirmed in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Lemos has been forced to withdraw due to a hand injury.<\/p>\n
“A replacement opponent was secured, but following an injury suffered in his final sparring session, scan results received yesterday confirmed that Azim is also unable to box.<\/p>\n
“The IBF No.2 eliminator between Azim and Lemos will be rescheduled for later this year.<\/p>\n
“Further updates regarding BOXXER’s The World Awaits fight night next Saturday at the Copper Box Arena in London will be announced shortly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 25, 2026, 07:54 AM ETAdam Azim was injured in his final sparring session.\u00a0Adam Davy\/PA Images via Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-434181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434181","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=434181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}