{"id":5509,"date":"2025-12-20T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:06:53","slug":"boxing-adam-azim-to-fight-on-bbc-two-against-gustavo-lemos-on-31-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Adam Azim to fight on BBC Two against Gustavo Lemos on 31 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British light-welterweight Adam Azim will face Argentina&#8217;s Gustavo Lemos live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on 31 January at the Copper Box Arena in London. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the second time in 20 years that professional boxing has been on primetime linear BBC television after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g43gxjvd5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Jeamie &#8216;TKV&#8217; Tshikeva and Frazer Clarke<\/a> launched the BBC&#8217;s partnership with Boxxer last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Azim v Lemos will feature an undercard led by unbeaten British bantamweight Francesca Hennessy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She fights Ellie Boutell in a final eliminator for the WBC bantamweight title held by Cherneka Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Azim, 23, has won all 14 of his fights, with 11 coming by way of knockout, but is taking a step up as he looks to put himself into world title contention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The light-welterweight was last in action on the undercard of Conor Benn&#8217;s victory over Chris Eubank Jr in November with a punch-perfect display against American Kurt Scoby. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g9y0jp9qwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British light-welterweight Ada&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}