It remains to be seen how he takes a shot, but he punches so hard that people struggle to take the steps to push him back," McGuigan adds.Īdam is a showman, a boxer who already understands the importance of entertaining the crowd. "He can fight at all distances, at range or in close. The super-lightweight's blistering hand speed, clinical finishing and impressive work rate has led coach McGuigan to describe him, in the nicest possible way, as "a freak." "One is going at a slower pace and the other at a faster pace, but we're both knocking people out and giving entertainment." "We're like the Charlo brothers and how they're developing," Adam adds. ![]() "The only thing I want is to get those titles and making my family, my team and my trainer proud," Adam says, before drawing comparisons with American twins and world champions Jermall and Jermell Charlo. The mistakes Adam would make, I would learn from." 'Adam is a freak' - McGuigan Adam 'The Assassin' Azim will face Argentine Michel Daniel Cabral in Liverpool on Saturday nightįor two young fighters still in the earliest stages of their careers, the journey they have mapped out is pretty clear. "The mistakes I would make, Adam would learn from. ![]() "We have been learning together," Hassan adds. They both use the same expression to describe going through the start of their boxing journey together - "a blessing." Hassan enjoyed his own successes, which included winning bronze at the Youth Olympics. "I had just been watching Adam and other people fight but I managed to pick it up so well."Īdam won several titles as an amateur and was ranked the number one youth welterweight in the country. "When I did my first sparring session, nobody had really taught me," Hassan says. At 11 years old, having watched his brother in the gym and having quietly soaked in the basics, he gave boxing a go. Hassan, in contrast to Adam, says he was "lazy" and "more chilled" as a child. He said you have extremely fast hands and talent." "I did some boxing stuff at the back of my garage and Dad saw the potential in me. "I had bad ADHD and my dad said to me that we need to put it into a sport so it can drain my energy, because every day I'd be banging my head or doing something stupid and then sometimes ending up in A&E. "I got into boxing was when I was four years old," he says. ![]() It was younger brother Adam who first laced the gloves after being introduced to boxing in order to channel his hyperactive behaviour. With a football-loving dad who played for Queens Park Rangers' Academy, sport was a huge part of the Azim household.
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