{"id":509684,"date":"2025-10-18T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/509684\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:07:20","slug":"zaur-abdullaev-withdraws-adam-azim-to-remain-on-eubank-benn-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/509684\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaur Abdullaev withdraws, Adam Azim to remain on Eubank-Benn card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the notable matchups on the undercard of the rematch between <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/chris-eubank-jr-847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Eubank Jr. <\/a>and <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/conor-benn-2150862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conor Benn<\/a> on November 15 in London has fallen off. <\/p>\n<p>The Ring has learned that Zaur Abdullaev (20-2, 12 KOs) has withdrawn from his fight against junior welterweight upstart Adam Azim (13-0, 10 KOs) because of an issue obtaining a visa. Abdullaev has chosen not to move forward with the fight, but Azim will remain on the card against an opponent that will soon be determined.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Azim, a 23-year-old from Berkshire, United Kingdom, is looking to further build momentum on his burgeoning career following back-to-back knockout wins against Ohara Davies in October of last year and Sergey Lipinets in February. <\/p>\n<p>Abdullaev, meanwhile, was looking to get back into the win column after dropping a unanimous decision against <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/raymond-muratalla-28441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raymond Muratalla<\/a> in May for the interim IBF lightweight title. Muratalla has since been elevated to be the full champion. <\/p>\n<p>Abdullaev&#8217;s loss to Muratalla ended a winning streak at nine fights. The only other defeat of the 31-year-old Russian&#8217;s career came against Devin Haney via fourth-round stoppage in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the notable matchups on the undercard of the rematch between Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-509684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115395798250392939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}