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#1 ranked Hamzah Sheeraz is in a really perfect state of affairs, dealing with what many consider to be the weakest hyperlink amongst middleweight champions, difficult WBC belt-holder Carlos Adames this Saturday, February twenty second, on Turki Alashikh’s Riyadh Season occasion on the Kingdom Enviornment on DAZN PPV.
Calculated Threat
Hamzah has obtained some criticism from followers for selecting Adames over WBC and WBO champion Janibek Alimkhanuly to struggle for a world title. Even Janibek was amused by Sheeraz’s option to struggle Adames somewhat than him for his two belts.
It appears like a crafty, calculated transfer on Sheeraz’s half to take the weakest of the middleweight champions, Adames, somewhat than danger getting uncovered as a pretend hype job by Janibek or Erislandy Lara. These are the 2 greatest fighters on this weak, barren, lifeless division by a protracted shot.
Some view Sheeraz as a 168-pounder in disguise who chooses to empty all the way down to 160 as a result of that’s his solely probability of changing into a world champion. In case you put Sheeraz in with Canelo Alvarez or among the different killers at 168, it wouldn’t finish properly for him. Therefore, he fights at 160 and appears huge contained in the ring in opposition to the smaller fighters.
Adames (24-1, 18 KOs) has seemed shaky in lots of fights since dropping to Patrick Teixeira in 2019. Carlos barely received by Sergiy Derevyanchenko, profitable a really questionable 10-round resolution in a struggle that many boxing followers had him dropping. I watched the struggle and felt that Derevyanchenko deserved the win in opposition to Adames by an 8-2 margin.
“This is it. This is the top level of boxing. This is what I feel I’ve been born to do,” stated Hamzah Sheeraz to talkSport Boxing about his struggle this Saturday evening in opposition to WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames in Riyadh. “What a possibility I’ve received to come back by way of to turn into a world champion.
Sheeraz’s promoter has put them in the very best spot to win a world title, and if he can’t produce right here, one should query his future potential. He would face a near-certain defeat if he’d thrown Sheeraz in with WBC and WBO champion Janibek Alimkhanuly or WBA champion Erislandy Lara.
These guys are too skilled and proficient for the younger, stork-like 6’3″ Hamzah to be matched in opposition to. Followers noticed Sheeraz’s vulnerability in his struggle in opposition to Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams final 12 months on June 1st when he was rocked early on, searching on his ft.
If not for Williams being such a restricted fighter with no fuel tank, he doubtless would have completed Sheeraz. After that scare, Sheeraz was matched in opposition to the weak-punching domestic-level fighter Tyler Denny final September, and he made straightforward work of him, scoring a second-round knockout.
Being matched in opposition to Denny as a substitute of a top-tier fighter indicated that Sheeraz’s administration was anxious after his efficiency in opposition to ‘Ammo’ Williams. He seemed chinny, inflicting some followers to check him to Amir Khan based mostly on his look when he was beneath fireplace by a really restricted middleweight.
