Adam Azim: If Josh Taylor wants it, let’s have it! | ‘When I fight Dalton Smith, I’ll teach him a lesson’ | Boxing News

Adam Azim is satisfied he laid down a marker together with his efficiency in opposition to former IBF world titlist Sergey Lipinets at Wembley Enviornment on Saturday.

Azim floored Lipinets with a quickfire counterpunch of their third spherical and finally overwhelmed the Kazakh within the ninth.

The fast-rising star from Slough stated that proved “one hundred pc I am a menace”.

“It is a former world champion,” Azim informed Sky Sports activities. “Solely [Jaron] ‘Boots’ Ennis has stopped him and I am the second individual to cease him and the way in which I did it, I dismantled him, broke him down and I believed I finished rather well.

“Hopefully there’s extra fights on the horizon like this.”

He issued a message on to British rival Dalton Smith. “Inform him to have an precise struggle, do not take straightforward fights,” Azim stated. “I want him one of the best of luck. I need him to win. I received.

“The struggle’s grown and I’ve received loads of respect for him. After I do struggle him, I am going to train him a lesson.

“He would not know what I’ve, what I am going to carry to him. All of the individuals round him hold speaking, hold speaking, hold speaking – you guys have not seen one of the best of me but, that was just a bit little bit of me, just a bit bit.”

Smith is not the one all-British struggle Azim want to have. He’d welcome a bout with Josh Taylor, beforehand the undisputed 140lb world champion.

“I do not know if he’ll take it,” Azim stated of Taylor. “A fantastic struggle, it will be a large struggle. However let’s examine what he desires. Actually let’s examine what he desires. If Josh desires it, let’s have it.

“It is persistence,” he continued. “Getting as much as the highest it’s important to be affected person.

“[I’m] a menace to all the division and I am not distant from it.”

Shane McGuigan, Azim’s coach, beforehand coached Taylor himself. He would not shrink back from that struggle.

“We might like an enormous identify. We might like names,” McGuigan informed Sky Sports activities. “Domestically you’ve got received Dalton Smith, you’ve got received Josh Taylor, you’ve got received Jack Catterall.

“These are the blokes that we might be domestically. However we do not need to go decrease than that when it comes to a home struggle. I do not suppose there’s any credibility going decrease.

“We would like these form of names or an enormous American identify.”

McGuigan added: “He is able to field one of the best guys. I genuinely imagine he’s.”

Aside from low blows, that noticed Azim docked two factors within the fourth and seventh rounds, the 22-year-old delivered close to sufficient an entire efficiency in opposition to Lipinets.

McGuigan additionally identified how Azim adjusted to cope with the punches straying low.

“They had been very shut to one another, [Lipinets] was getting very quick and clearly he’s small anyway and he [Azim] was beginning to bend over to actually go spherical the skin of the elbow, then Lipinets was altering the angle and taking pictures in shut,” McGuigan defined.

“It is unintentional however you have to tackle it. You’ve got received to have the ability to change it up and as soon as he had two low blows, as soon as he did that, he switched it up and went for the pinnacle.

“It’s extremely laborious to adapt like that in a struggle but it surely simply exhibits you ways comfy he’s.”

McGuigan was properly happy with Azim’s work. “He is simply dismantled a man that is been a world champion, solely been crushed by guys which might be actually elite fighters,” the coach stated.

“I believe he did a incredible job. He stopped him, dissected him together with his ft early on, broke him up with the jab. Dropped him within the third spherical and determined to face with him.

“Lipinets, he was banking on getting near Adam, getting shut and having the ability to stand there and take him out. However as soon as he received there, Adam was simply so significantly better on the within than him.”

Azim will doubtless subsequent field in the summertime and needs to have a 3rd bout later within the yr. A struggle with Dalton Smith, offering they each hold profitable, might be looming on the horizon.

Ben Shalom, Azim’s promoter, stated the Dalton Smith struggle is “inevitable in some unspecified time in the future”.

He informed Sky Sports activities: “In the identical method we’re chasing the Ryan Garcias and the Devin Haneys, they’re chasing Adam Azim and that is genuinely the way it feels. I believe the struggle will occur.

“However I believe the trajectory Adam’s on this rapidly, this early on in his profession implies that this can occur once we resolve it’ll occur. I believe it is a struggle that occurs down the road, possibly for a title.

“It is two large British names and we have seen what they’ll do with Khan and Brook, and Eubank and Benn. You do not typically get these nights in boxing and there are usually not many home opponents that may actually rival Adam Azim’s stature.

“Dalton Smith’s an ideal fighter. It is a large struggle down the road, it is a huge struggle down the road. However finally Dalton Smith wants Adam Azim rather more than Adam wants Dalton,” Shalom continued.

“In fact they need to get Adam as early as doable, they have been hoping for that struggle since he was 19 years previous.

“I am certain it would occur within the subsequent 12 months.”