Amir Khan discusses Dalton Smith vs Adam Azim
Former unified super-lightweight champion Amir Khan has laid out his prediction for a potential showdown between Adam Azim and Dalton Smith, after the bout was ordered by the EBU.
Dalton Smith and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, have been vocal in their call-outs of Azim ever since the fight was called for, demanding that Azim either begins negotiations or vacates the belt, but instead he and BOXXER opted to keep quiet.
Speaking to Boxing King Media, Azim’s idol, Khan, encouraged him to be patient and take the fight later down the line, seeing Dalton Smith as too big of a challenge at such an early point in the 21-year-old’s career.
“I think that with Adam [Azim] and Dalton [Smith], Dalton is a brilliant fighter. He won a great fight in his last fight, the way he finished it with a great body shot. I just feel that it is a little bit early for Adam, yes he’d go into it at the moment and do well, he could still beat Dalton, but does he need it this early? He is only a young boy.”
“His advisory team need to think ‘you know what, he needs at least one or two more fights, get a little bit more mature and a little bit more experience’ and then you can jump into a big fight like that. Dalton is on his own way, he’s going to go for the world title fights, let him become world champion then and when he is a world champion, how big of a fight would that be for Adam?”
“It would be a sell-out in the U.K.”
It seems nailed on that Azim will swerve Smith, after a face-off with Harlem Eubank at the weekend, although that fight is not finalised.