Today, Hamzah Sheeraz posted a photo of his injured left hand on social media. The hand was injured during his fight last Saturday night against WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames on Turki Alalshikh’s card at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The fight was ruled a 12-round split draw, but fans overwhelmingly saw Adames as the winner by a wide margin. Fighters frequently get injured hands but still find a way to win if they’re talented enough.
If Sheeraz believes in himself, he’ll fight a rematch with Adames. I wouldn’t recommend him doing that. He could be dominated even worse in the second fight, and he will have been shown that his career was always just smoke and mirrors—he was just a marketing creation to make money.
The scores
115-114: Sheeraz
118-110: Adames
114-114
Overmatched
The problem with Sheerez using his injured hand seemingly as an excuse for why he looked so poor is that he was struggling against Adames from the first round, getting out-punched and out-fought, and looking timid the entire time. Hamzah looked worse than poor from the get-go, and no one is buying his injury as an alibi for his terrible performance.
I watched the fight and had Adames winning 118-110. It was one of his easier victories, as Hamzah resembled a British-level fighter that didn’t belong inside the ring with him. The judges did Sheeraz no favors by giving him the draw because it made him look like he was given preferential treatment because he was being built up to be the next star. However, Hamzah, 25, had been matched against non-world his entire eight-year professional career.
Sheeraz had never fought a step-up type of opponent to prepare him adequately for his title fight against Adames. That was one of the problems. His promoters should have matched him against a top-five contender first before rushing him into a world title fight against the weakest link among the three world champions at 160.
The broken hand @sheeraz_hamzah suffered in his fight against Carlos Adames 😬
📸 @FrankWarren pic.twitter.com/orPo3q0ISn
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) February 26, 2025
“This was his first world title fight. He went for it, but he came up short,” said Carl Froch on his YouTube channel, talking about Hamzah Sheeraz failing in his fight against Carlos Adames last Saturday night in Riyadh. “Carlos Adames was too much for him.
“A lot of people were saying it wasn’t a close fight. On one of the scorecards, it was 118-110, which is a wide victory for Adames. The other two, 114-114, a draw, and the other one went one point [115-114] for Sheeraz. “The general consensus is, that Hamzah Sheeraz got well beat.”
Last Updated on 02/26/2025
