{"id":285658,"date":"2025-11-27T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285658\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:31:10","slug":"most-talented-fighter-in-uk-adam-azim-new-era-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285658\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Most talented fighter’ in UK? Adam Azim new era date set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Azim is set to return to the ring in January.\u00a0Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Adam Azim is set to fight on Jan. 31 in London, potentially against top 15 junior welterweight rival, promoter Ben Shalom has confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n

While a deal has not been finalised, Boxxer are closing in on an opponent in what will be Azim’s first fight on the BBC.<\/p>\n

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Azim (14-1, 11 KOs) dispatched American Kurt Scoby on the Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn II undercard earlier this month, with a dominant performance in which he won every round before finishing with a stoppage in Round 12.<\/p>\n

After the fight, trainer Shane McGuigan told ESPN<\/a> he believed getting opponents for Azim would be difficult, saying not many wanted to risk going in against the 23-year-old star.<\/p>\n

“We want someone that genuinely believes that they can win. But there’s not many people that want to risk that,” McGuigan said.<\/p>\n

“After looking at that [Azim’s win against Scoby], then they’re going to say: ‘He can take a shot. He can fight in close; he can box at distance.'”<\/p>\n

However, Shalom said they are on track to fight again in the new year.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to headline on BBC Two at the end of January, which is a huge thing for him,” Shalom told ESPN.<\/p>\n

“I think his performance against Kurt Scoby was great in the fact that I think it captured the American audience.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think Adam gets near enough the credit that he deserves. I think he’s the most talented fighter that we have in this country, but he’ll prove that, and all things take time.<\/p>\n

“He’s got a huge night where I think we see him crossover from a big star to a household name.”<\/p>\n

Azim is ranked No. 9 in the WBC junior welterweight [super lightweight] rankings. He is No. 10 with the IBF and WBO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Azim is set to return to the ring in January.\u00a0Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images Adam Azim is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-285658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}