Undefeated middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz will likely be getting a world title shot on February twenty second in opposition to one of many three champions within the 160-lb division in Riyadh.
Queensberry promoter Frank Warren reportedly informed Michael Benson that Sheeraz (21-0, 17 KOs) will struggle for a world title on the “identical card as Daniel Dubois’s return.” Nevertheless, there’s no phrase which of the champions the 25-year-old Sheeraz will likely be preventing. He’s ranked #1 WBC and #1 WBO.
If Queensberry wished to indicate what Sheeraz is manufactured from, they’d match him in opposition to IBF/WBO champion Janibek Alimhanuly, however that’s inconceivable to consider. The way in which Shereaz has regarded, he’d lose badly to Janibek and would by no means beat him, irrespective of what number of years glided by.
Sheeraz will in all probability problem WBC champion Carlos Adames reasonably than IBF and WBO champ Janibek as a result of the latter is just too proficient. Sheeraz is an effective fighter, however he’s not on Janibek’s degree, and it wouldn’t go effectively for him to tackle the unbeaten Kazakhstan fighter.
It could be an excessive amount of of a step up in school for Sheeraz to problem a fighter like Janibek. Sheeraz is an honest scraper when matched fastidiously, however he doesn’t have the form of expertise that might allow him to swim with a shark like Janibek.
The 6’3″ stork-like Sheeraz has been largely preventing on the domestic-level stage on the likes of Tyler Denny, Liam Williams, and Bradley Skeete throughout his seven-year skilled profession. Throwing Sheeraz in with Janibek would end in him getting smashed just like the Kazakh’s final opponent, Andrei Mikhailovich.
Hamzah was staggered early by Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams of their struggle earlier this yr on June 1st and was lucky that the American didn’t go to the end after placing him on skates. If that had been Janibek or Erislandy Lara, it might have been throughout for Sheeraz.
Whether it is Adames (24-1, 18 KOs) that Sheeraz challenges on February twenty second, he’s acquired an honest likelihood of profitable as a result of this can be a flawed champion that hasn’t regarded spectacular in fights in opposition to Terrell Gausha, Serhiy Derevyanchenko and Patrick Teixeira. Adames misplaced to Teixeira by a 12-round unanimous resolution on November thirtieth, 2019.
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