{"id":612345,"date":"2026-05-30T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612345\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:52:15","slug":"adam-azim-vs-steve-claggett-boxxer-weigh-in-live-watch-bbc-stream-updates-face-off-and-results-from-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612345\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Azim vs Steve Claggett Boxxer weigh-in LIVE: Watch BBC stream, updates, face-off and results from weigh-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Cousin Amir opened doors, now it’s my time’ – Abdul Khanpublished at 13:24 BST 29 May<\/p>\n

13:24 BST 29 May<\/p>\n

Khan v Fitzmaurice<\/p>\n

\"AbdulImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Abdul Khan was in nappies when his cousin Amir won the nation’s hearts and a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.<\/p>\n

By the time world champion Amir produced a career-defining performance against Marcos Maidana in 2010, Abdul was a seven-year-old watching wide-eyed in Bolton.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, featherweight Abdul faces journeyman Liam Fitzmaurice at Wembley in a watershed moment for British South Asian boxing.<\/p>\n

The card is headlined by unbeaten light-welterweight Adam Azim and features prospects Mohammad Bilal Ali, Vijayraj Karia and Saqib Mehmood in the earlier bouts – meaning five south Asian fighters will share billing.<\/p>\n

“I’m grateful for everything he has done to open the doors – but it is all right getting through the doors, it is how good you are to stay in those rooms,” Abdul told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“It’s been my own hard work and dedication which has kept those doors open. This only gives me more of a push to just get out of the shadow. I think we’re all our own people and I’d love to shrug off that tag of Amir’s cousin.<\/p>\n

“He done so much for me but I don’t want to latch onto anyone else’s name, you only appreciate it more – and get appreciated – if you do it this way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Cousin Amir opened doors, now it’s my time’ – Abdul Khanpublished at 13:24 BST 29 May 13:24 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612345","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\/612345","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=612345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}