Adam Azim is satisfied he laid down a marker together with his efficiency towards former IBF world titlist Sergey Lipinets at Wembley Enviornment on Saturday.

Azim floored Lipinets with a quickfire counterpunch of their third spherical and finally overwhelmed the Kazakh within the ninth.

The fast-rising star from Slough stated that proved “100% I am a menace”.

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“It is a former world champion,” Azim informed Sky Sports activities. “Solely [Jaron] ‘Boots’ Ennis has stopped him and I am the second individual to cease him and the best way I did it, I dismantled him, broke him down and I believed I executed rather well.

“Hopefully there’s extra fights on the horizon like this.”

He issued a message on to British rival Dalton Smith. “Inform him to have an precise combat, do not take straightforward fights,” Azim stated. “I want him the very best of luck. I need him to win. I received.

“The combat’s grown and I’ve acquired lots of respect for him. After I do combat him, I will educate him a lesson.

“He does not know what I’ve, what I will deliver to him. All of the individuals round him preserve speaking, preserve speaking, preserve speaking – you guys have not seen the very best of me but, that was just a bit little bit of me, just a bit bit.”

Smith is not the one all-British combat Azim want to have. He’d welcome a bout with Josh Taylor, beforehand the undisputed 140lb world champion.

“I do not know if he’ll take it,” Azim stated of Taylor. “An incredible combat, it’s going to be an enormous combat. However let’s examine what he needs. Truthfully let’s examine what he needs. If Josh needs it, let’s have it.

“It is endurance,” he continued. “Getting as much as the highest you need to be affected person.

“[I’m] a menace to the entire division and I am not far-off from it.”

Shane McGuigan, Azim’s coach, beforehand coached Taylor himself. He would not draw back from that combat.

“We might like an enormous identify. We might like names,” McGuigan informed Sky Sports activities. “Domestically you’ve got acquired Dalton Smith, you’ve got acquired Josh Taylor, you’ve got acquired Jack Catterall.

“These are the fellows that we might be taking a look at domestically. However we do not wish to go decrease than that when it comes to a home combat. I do not assume there’s any credibility going decrease.

“We would like these type of names or an enormous American identify.”

McGuigan added: “He is able to field the very best guys. I genuinely consider he’s.”

Aside from low blows, that noticed Azim docked two factors within the fourth and seventh rounds, the 22-year-old delivered close to sufficient an entire efficiency towards Lipinets.

McGuigan additionally identified how Azim adjusted to cope with the punches straying low.

“They have been very shut to one another, [Lipinets] was getting very brief and clearly he’s small anyway and he [Azim] was beginning to bend over to essentially go spherical the surface of the elbow, then Lipinets was altering the angle and capturing in shut,” McGuigan defined.

“It is unintentional however you have to deal with it. You’ve got acquired to have the ability to change it up and as soon as he had two low blows, as soon as he did that, he switched it up and went for the top.

“It’s extremely exhausting to adapt like that in a combat but it surely simply exhibits you the way comfy he’s.”

McGuigan was nicely happy with Azim’s work. “He is simply dismantled a man that is been a world champion, solely been crushed by guys which are actually elite fighters,” the coach stated.

“I feel he did a implausible job. He stopped him, dissected him together with his ft early on, broke him up with the jab. Dropped him within the third spherical and determined to face with him.

“Lipinets, he was banking on getting near Adam, getting shut and with the ability to stand there and take him out. However as soon as he acquired there, Adam was simply so a lot better on the within than him.”

Azim will probably subsequent field in the summertime and desires to have a 3rd bout later within the 12 months. A combat with Dalton Smith, offering they each preserve successful, could possibly be looming on the horizon.

Ben Shalom, Azim’s promoter, stated the Dalton Smith combat is “inevitable sooner or later”.

He informed Sky Sports activities: “In the identical method we’re chasing the Ryan Garcias and the Devin Haneys, they’re chasing Adam Azim and that is genuinely the way it feels. I feel the combat will occur.

“However I feel the trajectory Adam’s on this shortly, this early on in his profession implies that this may occur after we determine it’ll occur. I feel it is a combat that occurs down the road, possibly for a title.

“It is two huge British names and we have seen what they will do with Khan and Brook, and Eubank and Benn. You do not typically get these nights in boxing and there usually are not many home opponents that may actually rival Adam Azim’s stature.

“Dalton Smith’s a terrific fighter. It is a huge combat down the road, it is a large combat down the road. However finally Dalton Smith wants Adam Azim way more than Adam wants Dalton,” Shalom continued.

“In fact they wish to get Adam as early as doable, they have been hoping for that combat since he was 19 years outdated.

“I am certain it’ll occur within the subsequent 12 months.”