Adam Azim is dealing with his fears one after the other.
These embrace sharks, heights and sitting down quietly to learn a ebook.
Sergey Lipinets, nonetheless, is just not listed amongst them. Azim fights the previous world champion, a harmful and seasoned veteran, tonight at Wembley Area, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
“No fear of Lipinets. Any opponent I face, I respect them, I highly respect them but when I get in that ring, I switch. Straight into focus,” Azim instructed Sky Sports activities.
The boxer is a person of motion. However he’s attempting to higher himself. He is working to enhance his communication expertise as he prepares for sporting stardom, and he is doing that by studying, beginning off with Harry Potter.
“Reading a book, there’s a lot of thinking process reading a book. I’ve got ADHD. It’s actually hard to sit still. I might read a couple of pages, I might swipe on phone, read another couple of pages,” Azim defined.
“I feel I would quite have a combat than sit and browse a ebook. Studying a ebook is typically hectic.
“It’s a massive challenge for myself as well because if I want to get better at English I’ve got to read and be a talker,” he added. “I never used to concentrate.
“I’ve to do stuff out of my consolation zone to make myself a greater individual generally.”
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Adam Azim speaks forward of his bout with Sergey Lipinets and the way studying Harry Potter books has helped him step exterior his consolation zone.
He intends to maintain on conquering his fears. “I like to do scary stuff,” Azim stated. “I’ve done the skydiving. I hate heights. I hate heights to bits but it was something on the bucket list I wanted to do.
“I’ll do others like scuba diving or one thing. One factor I hate is sharks…”
But performing in the boxing ring, under the lights in front of thousands of spectators, and against an all-action fighter who has fought some of the best in the sport, does not trouble him.
“It is going to be an awesome combat. Lipinets is clearly a former world champion and the one method that he will combat is coming ahead,” Azim said.
“He will attempt to use that strain in opposition to me. However I do like individuals who come at me.
“I’ve been training really hard for this fight,” he added. “Sergey, he’s going to put everything into it. Because he’s got that experience, he’s going to come give it a go. I know for sure that this is going to be a really good fight.”
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Adam Azim insists he is totally centered on his combat with Sergey Lipinets and is not fascinated with potential future bouts with Gervonta Davis or Ryan Garcia.
Lipinets himself had a warning for Azim. “He’s in the way of my belt,” the Kazakh, who is set to turn out to be a two-time world champion, instructed Sky Sports activities. “He’s only 22 years old and he hasn’t fought at a level like mine.
“Many champions did not take the combat with me as a result of it is laborious,” he added. “It is a massive step as a result of I’ve fought with good fighters like Mikey Garcia, [Jaron] Ennis, and we are going to see what his stage is. I feel he desires to examine this too. Is he on a champion’s stage or not but?
“I respect that he’s not scared to take this fight, because it’s a hard fight. And we will see if he’s ready for this fight or if it’s a big mistake.”
Azim is satisfied that he’s certainly prepared. “Each fight I’m improving all the time. I feel like this fight I’ll show my full package as a world-class athlete. And I feel like this is my time to shine.”
He desires to make use of this contest to show that he’s a world champion in ready.
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Check out highlights of Adam Azim’s subsequent opponent as he faces veteran Russian fighter Sergey Lipinets. Credit score: ProBox TV
“That’s my main goal for this fight. I want to do a better job on him than ‘Boots’ [Ennis, the IBF welterweight world champion]. The way that ‘Boots’ beat him was actually with speed and I’ve got speed. To get him out there would be good,” Azim stated.
“Hopefully do it quicker than six rounds.”
If Azim would possibly learn books to problem himself in addition to in search of out different exams for his leisure time, he’ll nonetheless unwind after this subsequent combat. That may embrace reconnecting along with his newly acquired pet goat.
“The goat, I have not seen it for a while. It’s been in the farm, he’s getting fed, he’s getting bigger,” Azim smiled.
“He kept running away from me, out of my hands. Started to settle down. He’s still a little baby… Hopefully he gets bigger and I can take him out for a walk maybe.
He added: “I wish to be the GOAT*. So I needed to get a goat.”
(*The Greatest of All Time.)
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