Harlem Eubank believes a contest with Adam Azim, which stalled final yr, might nonetheless be made.
The struggle fell by way of after trying set for 2024, and Eubank advised Sky Sports activities: “There are a lot of ifs and that is what kept us out of the ring for 12 months. I’ll just be focused on what I have in front of me.
“However I am all the time fascinated by large fights, and additional down the road, if that is Adam Azim, it is Adam Azim. However for now, I’m absolutely locked in on [Tyrone] McKenna.”
Azim additionally has a struggle of his personal first. On Saturday he packing containers Sergey Lipinets, a former IBF super-lightweight world titlist, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Promoter Ben Shalom advised Sky Sports activities: “Harlem Eubank’s obviously calling Adam out and he likes the fight. That would be a great fight and it’s a fight we should have had.
“By the point it got here round after Adam’s harm, in equity to Harlem he needed one or two again to arrange for such an enormous struggle. There isn’t any motive why that may’t occur.
“We want the big-profile fights and we know what the name Eubank does in British boxing.”
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Matthew Macklin questions whether or not Azim will struggle home rival Dalton Smith subsequent ought to he come by way of victorious towards Lipinets
However he added: “I don’t want to put more pressure on the fact that he’s fighting a former world champion on Saturday night and it really could go either way. Let’s see how he performs. If he performs well I’d love to make that fight.”
Arising subsequent, in his Brighton hometown in March, Eubank will field Tyrone McKenna.
McKenna was definitely the aggressor within the verbal exchanges at their press convention, questioning Eubank’s stage of opposition.
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Azim insists he is absolutely targeted on his struggle with Lipinets and is not enthusiastic about potential future bouts with Gervonta Davis or Ryan Garcia
McKenna advised Sky Sports activities: “He is going to feel a lot of pressure going into this fight. I’m the best opponent that he has had. It’s in his hometown, in front of his own fans, on his Wasserman show.
“I am coming in because the away fighter. I have been crushed a couple of instances, I am the bookies’ underdog, and I like that. In my final struggle, I walked out to boos, and it spurred me on.”
Eubank, 30, clearly feels in a different way, trying to ship one other emphatic efficiency in Brighton following his career-best victory over Timo Schwarzkopf in November 2023.
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Azim speaks forward of his bout with Lipinets and the way studying Harry Potter books has helped him step outdoors his consolation zone
“When I’m here at home, I always feel like I rise to the occasion, especially with a step up in opponent,” he stated.
“It always motivates me to go in there and prove a point. I’m motivated to do that on March 7 against Tyrone McKenna.”
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