{"id":36875,"date":"2025-12-22T01:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-adam-azim-to-fight-on-bbc-two-against-gustavo-lemos-on-31-january\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:35:40","slug":"boxing-adam-azim-to-fight-on-bbc-two-against-gustavo-lemos-on-31-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-adam-azim-to-fight-on-bbc-two-against-gustavo-lemos-on-31-january\/","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 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. It will be the second time in 20 years that professional boxing has been on primetime linear BBC television after Jeamie &#8216;TKV&#8217; Tshikeva and Frazer Clarke launched the BBC&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36877,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions\/36877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}