{"id":147801,"date":"2024-02-05T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/05\/joshua-buatsi-beats-dan-azeez-in-all-british-light-heavyweight-contest\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:50:29","slug":"joshua-buatsi-beats-dan-azeez-in-all-british-light-heavyweight-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/05\/joshua-buatsi-beats-dan-azeez-in-all-british-light-heavyweight-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Buatsi beats Dan Azeez in all-British light-heavyweight contest \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Briton Joshua Buatsi outpointed friend and rival Dan Azeez in a brilliant all-British light-heavyweight encounter at Wembley\u2019s OVO Arena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buatsi and Azeez served up a domestic dust-up for the boxing purist.<\/p>\n<p>In quite the striking visual, Azeez made his ring walk second and headed straight to the middle of the ring to meet Buatsi face on. He skipped on the spot as Buatsi shadowboxed \u2013 neither man averting their gaze.<\/p>\n<p>They have sparred hundreds of rounds together but it was an altogether different proposition competing with smaller gloves and under the bright lights of the arena and a vocal crowd \u2013 with allegiances seemingly split between the south Londoners.<\/p>\n<p>Buatsi floored his fellow Londoner twice in the 11th round, although Azeez insisted he slipped on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Two judges scored it 116-110 and the other 117-109 to Buatsi in a bout where both men continued swinging into the final seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe pushed me every round, he\u2019s a champion,\u201d Buatsi, 30, said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_579991\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Buatsi-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579991\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joshua Buatsi punches Dan Azeez (Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_579993\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Buatsi-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579993\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joshua Buatsi celebrates victory with the belt (Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t have done it without Dan, it\u2019s a pleasure to share the ring with him. Dan was pounding my head. He made me fight every second. Dan, big up yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_579990\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Azeez-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579990\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dan Azeez looks dejected following his defeat (Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The contest was an eliminator for WBA champion Dmitry Bivol\u2019s world title, while Buatsi also picks up the British and Commonwealth belts with his 18th professional win.<\/p>\n<p>Azeez, who suffered a first defeat in his 21st bout, was gracious in defeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briton Joshua Buatsi outpointed friend and rival Dan Azeez in a brilliant all-British light-heavyweight encounter at Wembley\u2019s OVO Arena. Buatsi and Azeez served up a domestic dust-up for the boxing purist. In quite the striking visual, Azeez made his ring walk second and headed straight to the middle of the ring to meet Buatsi face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joshua Buatsi beats Dan Azeez in all-British light-heavyweight contest \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/05\/joshua-buatsi-beats-dan-azeez-in-all-british-light-heavyweight-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joshua Buatsi beats Dan Azeez in all-British light-heavyweight contest \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Briton Joshua Buatsi outpointed friend and rival Dan Azeez in a brilliant all-British light-heavyweight encounter at Wembley\u2019s OVO Arena. 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