While this fight may not fully light up the Instagram reels like most of his other fights, Adam Azim will certainly see it as an important night for his growth.
Nicaraguan Santos Reyes 12-0 was brought in with the hope that he would provide some innings for Azim, who won five games in the rotation in 2022 but appeared only in a total of eight thirds throughout. 12 months.
Not many people expected him to beat all 10 here, especially when he was dropped by an evil right arm at the second, but that’s exactly what Reyes did. Whatever he gets paid, he deserves double.
Because Reyes was tenacious throughout the match, despite barely winning a second in any of the rounds. But he played his role right, he persevered and let his 20-year-old opponent down.
These 30 minutes of action will be like pure gold for Azim and especially his trainer, Shane McGuigan, who not only trains the boxer but also creates the atmosphere in which he can thrive in spite of himself. exaggeration.
It seems like he did things his own way, using his long and sharp jab to set up attacks on the head and body but there are times when his best work is not. can hit anything but gloves. It forces him to reassess, angle, and set up attacks. Despite his form last year, Azim knows it’s not always possible to smack someone on the chin and put them to sleep, though it has happened frequently in the gym and under the lights.
But if he wants to reach the heights he has come to expect, there will be difficult, frustrating nights. This isn’t quite one of those things but it’s exactly what he needed.
It was also the first time in his career that he knocked someone out and couldn’t finish the match. As Reyes staggered back into her pants behind that right hand, it seemed another early night was almost guaranteed. But he regained his composure and made it through the round.
Azim said: “After the knock and he fell, I thought he was gone. “I put it right on the button, you know, the people in his country are tough.
“Generally I rate my performance. It’s very difficult, I’ve never seen someone who’s had eight fights against someone who’s going 12-0.”
Judges Michael Alexander, Rene Fiebig and Grzegorz Molenda all gave the score 100-89 in favor of the Slough man, who had to hear a score reading for the first time since his professional debut in 2012.
“This is definitely what we wanted, kills, rounds, experience,” said McGuigan. This is everything we needed and we can showcase what we did in the gym tonight.”
At the main support, Fulham’s Zak Chelli diligently boxed on his way to the biggest win of his career, outpacing the 10-year-old Anthony Sims Jr in the super-middleweight division.
Chelli showed enough patience and focus to control large parts of the fight, except for a brief stint in the eighth inning when the Las Vegas man produced an eye-catching but ultimately explosive energy blast. meaningless.
No surprise – or complaint from the Sims – when Molenda and Terry O’Connor scored 98-92 and Fiebig 99-92. Alexander is the referee.
There was also the best career performance of Rowley Regis middleweight Tyler Denny, who once again successfully defended his British title against undefeated Bradley.
In November, it was Brad Rea but here he beat ‘The Newquay Bomb’ Brad Pauls by more than 10 points in style from his masculine stance. Alexander scored 98-93 while both O’Connor and Howard Foster scored 97-93. Bob Williams reintroduced.
Viddal Riley versus Anees Taj was considered the best match of the night after three rounds of back-and-forth action but it was cut, literally, by four seconds into the fourth.
Tottenham heavyweight Riley landed with his hot right hand, making an ugly incision over Taj’s left eye and although his corner did a good job of sorting it between rounds, but the ring doctor advised referee Bob Williams to wave his hand.
It was also an early night for Caroline Dubois, who beat the defeated Tanzanian Feriche Mashausy in three rounds. “I am disappointed,” she said later. “I want someone who will fight back, hit back. She was negative from the first ring. She actually turned away.
Mashausy was knocked out in the second round by a shot to the body and stopped after 47 seconds of the third round when Foster had had enough. Prior to that, Tottenham Jamie TKV beat Torquay’s Harry Armstong over eight thirds in the heavyweight division. Williams scored the goal with a score of 77-75, a harsh score against the dominant TKV.
There have been overtime wins for all four house boxers remaining in the bottom bracket. Welterweight Hassan Azim, brother of Adam, tore the net of Tanzanian Abdallah Luanja in two brutal innings when Foster demanded a pause after 2-43 of the second inning.
Luton’s super-middleweight Jordan Reynolds knocked out Frenchman Mohamed Cherif Benchadi in the second round but didn’t close the match until 58 seconds in the sixth and final round when Foster entered.
Smithborough’s Stevie McKenna beat Brendon Denes in the fourth round and the Zimbabwean then decided not to leave his chair at the start of the fifth round. It was scheduled for eight o’clock with Williams the referrer. In the first bout of the night, featherweight Razor Ali Maida Vale won the first inning gap of his career as he forced Williams to retire in the sixth round to Mexico’s Hector Avila Lozano after 1-26 of third inning.
Verdict: Azim needed a night like this and he got it.
RESULT:
Adam Azim (140lbs), 8-0 (6), ahead of Santos Reyes (140lbs), 12-1 (3); Zak Chelli (167lbs), 13-1-1 (6), with Anthony Sims Jnr (167lbs), 23-2 (20); Tyler Denny (160lbs), 16-2-3, with 10 Brad Pauls (159lbs), 16-1 (9); Viddal Riley (198 lbs), 8-0 (5), w rsf 4 Anees Taj (198 1/4 lbs), 7-3 (5); Caroline Dubois (137lbs), 6-0 (5), ahead of 3 Feriche Mashausy (138lbs), 10-8 (3); Jeamie TKV (260 lbs), 4-0 (2), with 8 Harry Armstrong (259 1/4 lbs), 5-1-1; Jordan Reynolds (171 1/4 lbs), 5-0 (2), versus 6 Mohammed Cherif Benchadi (173 lbs), 4-21-2; Stevie McKenna (153lbs), 13-0 (12), vs. 4 Brendon Denes (151lbs), 9-3 (6); Hassan Azim (149 1/4 lbs), 6-0 (3), ahead 2 Abdallah Luanja (144 lbs), 15-10-2 (10); Razor Ali (124lbs), 7-0 (1), ahead of 3 Hector Lozano (125 1/4lbs), 1-2 (1).
EMPTY SEAT
THIS was an emotional event from start to finish as boxing paid tribute to our friend and colleague Ron Lewis at Wembley. Ron was supposed to be sitting next to me at Wembley Arena, narrating the Boxing Scene, rolling his eyes to the music in the ring and scouring the oddballs for the worth of the men and women in the ring. .
But Ron suffered a cardiac arrest on Friday morning and died at his home. Boxxer kept his desk for him, resting on it a red carnation and adorning it with his beloved Queens Park Rangers shirt and scarf.
There was also a minute of applause for the famous journalist, who covered boxing for decades before his sudden and tragic death last week.
Ron and I, both freelance contributors, worked side-by-side on Boxing Scene at Anthony Joshua’s press conference on Thursday. We’ve agreed to sit down for a quiet moment on this show and reveal some of the many quotes by the likes of Joshua, Eddie Hearn, and Joe Markowski that haven’t been used.
When leaving the press conference to pick up his little daughter when it was late in the evening, he happily waved: ‘See you on Saturday’. Without him at this show is unthinkable.
The flurry of tributes since his wife, Ellie, confirmed the sad news on Twitter, has partly highlighted Ron’s respect for the industry. With the way the media has changed over the years, especially in boxing, there will never be another like him.
He was a mainstay and a giant and we all miss him.
