HAMZAH SHEERAZ, ON Saturday, has the chance to submit his most emphatic and significant assertion thus far when he goes up towards Liam Williams at London’s Copper Field Area in what’s our opening present of 2024, reside on TNT Sports activities.
It’s a middleweight struggle with humdinger written throughout it and it’s one I can not anticipate. I actually don’t see this struggle being too attritional and I believe they are going to be trying to knock one another’s block off proper from the primary bell.
Hamzah is a rising star in my e book and somebody we now have lengthy recognized as a future world champion. He’s additionally a positive younger gent who conducts himself completely and is a positive ambassador for the game.
He invests in himself to make sure he advantages from the very best of every thing throughout his coaching camps in Los Angeles, whereas additionally making important sacrifices relating to spending prolonged intervals away from house.
Hamzah is ready to do no matter it takes to present himself the best attainable likelihood of reaching the head and, to date, it definitely seems to be paying dividends.
Evidently the more durable the duty we put in entrance of him, the simpler he makes it look. This was notably evidenced in his final struggle towards the undefeated Ukrainian Dmytro Mytrofanov, who was a seasoned veteran of the laborious faculty of knocks that was the World Sequence of Boxing, which is the very best towards the very best within the amateurs.
Hamzah took him out after 30-odd seconds of spherical two on his opponent’s house present.
However we have to maintain difficult him and that is the place Liam is available in. We clearly know him properly and, for a time frame, he precipitated absolute carnage when he moved as much as the middleweight division, solely coming unstuck towards the then undefeated world champion Demetrius Andrade over in America.
He confirmed us in a short cameo at York Corridor late final 12 months that he has misplaced nothing of his fabled energy and talent to intimidate. Hamzah has bought to cope with this and counter it.
If he does so, this shall be a notable identify on his resume and we will actually begin plotting towards a world title problem for him. I really feel he’s destined to grow to be a world champion, maybe at a couple of weight, contemplating the dimensions of him!
Additionally, be sure to tune in to TNT Sports activities to catch the British light-weight title conflict between Sam Noakes and the English champion Lewis Sylvester, plus Masood Abdulah combating for the Commonwealth Silver featherweight title towards the 2016 Olympian Qais Ashfaq.
Then we’ve bought Anthony Yarde again in motion once more following his exploits towards Artur Beterbiev final 12 months taking up the skilled Serbian Marko Nikolic.
I make no secret of the truth that, if we get by means of with none mishaps, I want to see Anthony in an all-British blockbuster towards Joshua Buatsi, who impressed final week in beating Dan Azeez.
It’s a struggle the followers have been calling for for a while and I see no purpose why it will possibly’t be delivered in the course of this 12 months in what can be a large event for the game.
Tune in for Struggle Evening Dwell from the Copper Field Area on Saturday from 7pm on TNT Sports activities 1.
BOXING, AS IT often tends to do, delivered us a low blow final week when information filtered by means of revealing that Tyson Fury had sustained a nasty gash above his eye throughout sparring.
Such information bulletins are deflating for all involved and, at the start, you’re feeling for each fighters who’ve been away from their households for a protracted time frame. Then there may be everybody who has labored so laborious in organising an occasion of this magnitude.
Nonetheless, not one of the graft will go to waste and we have already got a brand new date of Could 18 to deal with.
The cruel reality of the matter stays that boxing is, and has at all times been, an unavoidably accident-prone sport which you can by no means fully legislate for.
We’re going to see Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk for the crown of undisputed champion, though I sense this may truly come as a disappointment to some.
The same old suspects have been out in power peddling their drivel when information of the minimize broke, as if it one way or the other justified their warped narratives. It would most likely ache them when these two step into the ring for the most important struggle of the century.
Sadly huge fights are sometimes topic to delays. Simply have a look at a couple of latest encounters which have met with rave evaluations. Artur Beterbiev towards Callum Smith, Joshua Buatsi towards Dan Azeez – each of those fights have been imagined to happen final 12 months. Additionally our most important occasion on Saturday between Hamzah and Liam was initially pencilled in for the start of December.
This stuff occur. What issues most is that the fights are value ready for.
