Frank Warren believes that Hamzah Sheeraz will become a world champion, but it might be at super middleweight.
The British fighter currently operates at 160lbs and fights tonight against Liam Willaims (live on ESPN+ in the US).
Writing in BoxingScene.com about his fighter, he said: “It is a middleweight fight with humdinger written all over it and it is one I cannot wait for. I really don’t see this fight being too attritional and I suspect they will be looking to knock each other’s block off right from the first bell.
“Hamzah is a rising star in my book and someone we have long identified as a future world champion. He is also a fine young gent who conducts himself perfectly and is a fine ambassador for the sport.
“He invests in himself to ensure he benefits from the best of everything across his training camps in Los Angeles, while also making significant sacrifices when it comes to spending lengthy periods away from home.
“Hamzah is prepared to do whatever it takes to give himself the highest possible chance of reaching the pinnacle and, up to now, it certainly appears to be paying dividends.
“It seems that the harder the task we put in front of him, the easier he makes it look. This was particularly evidenced in his last fight against the undefeated Ukrainian Dmytro Mytrofanov, who was a seasoned veteran of the hard school of knocks that was the World Series of Boxing, which is the best against the best in the amateurs.
“Hamzah took him out after 30-odd seconds of round two on his opponent’s home show.
“But we need to keep challenging him and this is where Liam comes in. We obviously know him well and, for a period of time, he caused absolute carnage when he moved up to the middleweight division, only coming unstuck against the then undefeated world champion Demetrius Andrade over in America.”
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