‘IT’S RIDICULOUS!’ – ADAM SMITH SLAMS FURY CUT CRITICS // TALKS COMMENTARY RETURN WITH IZZY ASIF

‘IT’S RIDICULOUS!’ – ADAM SMITH SLAMS FURY CUT CRITICS // TALKS COMMENTARY RETURN WITH IZZY ASIF

IFL TV spoke to Adam Smith and promoter Izzy Asif, as Adam made his return to commentary after a long battle with illness.

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Wall Street memes Casino I’m fine and sports book this is Oscar bis for IFL TV Izzy great show and Adam mate so good to see you back on commentary um Izzy is this a bit of a pinch yourself moment for you your shows have been G very well but now You’ got

Adam Smith on commentary sorry Adam I don’t want to blow smoke but come on I told you I’ve grown up listening to Adam Smith I’ve been a Adam Smith fan or my life I’ve been a boxing fan before a boxing promoter I’ve met Adam a few times got a few close mutual friends

Genuine blog you know pure pure pure and gold listen how lucky are we to have Adam to make his comeback on the GBM platform I hope you enjoyed it you know I love giving it a Spiel and telling everybody how good we are but sometimes

You’ve got to come to a GBM show to really realize how good of a show we put on how good of a production and the kind of logistics of the shows you know we match most people in the country if not if not beat most people in the country

And and I say that people think is he really just full of it but I hope hadam enjoyed it and yeah it’s been a cracking night and another another one that’s going to go down as Pinch Me moment but I’ve had a lot of them pinch myself

Moment So eventually he’s going to come another day in the office but I want to keep enjoying it enjoying the dream enjoying my vision and just keep growing and and developing our brand and and our stable of Fighters Adam thousand’s tens of thousands of shows that you’ve done

Um I guess you can call them New Kids on the Block yeah it’s um it’s been fantastic um I’m really glad that Izzy and I bumped into each other the other week and uh I wasn’t sure when I was going to come back and and the mic it’s been a a

Really rough sort of 12 14 months for me um but I wanted to get back it’s been my passion since I was a kid um that’s all I’ve ever really wanted to do is to commentate and uh you know I really I really respect Fighters and appreciate

Them so much at at every level and I think it was important for me to come back to a show like this where it’s new and there’s young talent and there’s good fights and I’d heard a lot about the atmosphere in these shows I thought the production was first class and I

Think I he’s going places and look there’s some fantastic shows and Brilliant stuff going on with matchroom obviously that they’ve had it for years with Queensbury you know with with Ben at boxer they’ve got some massive stuff going on and TV deals but I think iszy

You know he’s a former fighter and I really like the passion he’s got as well and and the intensity that he brings to to fight Knights he’s he’s living it all and you know he reminds me a little bit of when Eddie and I started off and and

And Eddie was just you know jumping in the ring with Carl fr you know before the fight ended and all that I think it’s great when you’ve got passion but it’s it’s a business and it’s a hard business and um you know they’ve got a

Long way to go GBM Sports of course but they’ve started really well and they’ve got a a big plan and I wish them well and I’d love to come back and do more for them and you never lose it do you on the commentary side I did it just kind

Of did it just fit back in as soon as you pick the mic up for that first fight with Joe Hayden did you just feel yeah I’m back at home yeah I think um I think that’s my home I think that that was my safe space was just where I I love

Commentating and as I said I’ve done it Oscar since I was 9 10 years old I used to have a Dictaphone and and you know really annoying my parents by turning the volume down in all sports whether it was boxing Cricket football tennis uh darts un snooker you name it I mean they

Were just so tired of me um because I wasn’t I wasn’t any good at sport so you know I had that that just love of it and I just was really good at watching sport so I just talked incessantly before my voice had broken and then it’s all I

Ever wanted to do so I think yes it’s it’s just in me and and it’s part of me and you know I they say it’s like what riding a bike getting back on a bike if you haven’t rid the bike for long I’m I’m really bad at riding bikes I’ve got

Hyper Mobility I’ve got no you know core strength or anything like that but I guess for me picking up a mic is like that and uh I was very relaxed Spencer and I have known each other for a long time and I really enjoyed it and I um

Yeah I’ve had a I’ve had a great time and um I’m tired it’s been a long night it’s it’s hot in here um I’ve got a long drive home but uh uh hopefully he’ll ask me back and I’d love to come it’s been brilliant seeing you back on on the mic

Um let’s talk about Shaquille Thompson by the way I mean Gino can said yeah I want to get in the middle of the Ring yeah he might regret that sitting in his change room now cuz Shaquille is one powerful fighter yeah I would BL that would an unbelievable performance if he

Hasn’t if he weren’t known in the British scene he definitely is now he’s made a real statement there he put him away in excellent fashion and he’s somebody that I’ve always known how good he was but to actually see him today I’ve seen some different I think he’s

Just up the level and listen he’s ready he’s going to be he’s going to be a good signing for GBM Sports he’s a kind of fighter that we want to push on ready for them titles take them challenges on and then we’re going to work with guys like Shaquille Thompson and people up

Around the country and I was well impressed I don’t know what you thought Adam you’ve seen him before on the sky platform yeah I think he’s a great talent and I really think he could be a big name in Sheffield you know we’ve got this tradition in Sheffield to produce

Champions you got your Dalton Smith at the moment you know you got Jan Boston I think Shaquille Thompson there you know and he he could be real real of course Dalton’s a very very good fighter who who I believe for a long time is going to go you know huge huge distance in

This Sport and I I think Sha’s good I think he’s he’s really exciting I think he’s sharp I think he can punch uh the fight went on too long for me um I think it was uh you know he should have been saved for another day but look let’s

Just focus on on Shaq’s performance it was uh crisp um classy the way he looked at him mentally beforehand as well um for me he’s got everything that a young exciting prospect should have have um I expect him to go on to uh to win titles

And um you know he could go all the way we don’t know it’s it’s early days and let’s see how the education goes but um I was very very impressed with him and a close one with Thomas aomber yeah really close I I did have it Thomas up by

Around a two but it wouldn’t have surprise me if it went the other way uh but yeah is that because you love the Thomas story yeah I I look on not love the Thomas story both got a good story though Ellie con’s got a nice Olympic

Story and and he he surprised me because he come back on strong I thought Thomas started really strong but Ellie Cony come back into a fight that were close Stevie Le’s fight were close Frack got a draw you know it was good it was well matched all the way from top to bottom

Every single fight could have gone the other way and that’s that’s what excited me about this I think he the best show we’ve done today but like Adam said earlier would would we like to have him back on I’m ready to sign the contract with Adam and he can be GBM sports for

20124 and the future and listen why not I think we’re going to have a busy year and if people are Adam on board spend Sol Oliver’s on board we’ve got talk sport backing us which is a massive platform uh so yeah this we’re growing in strength and Adam anytime you want we

Can sign that contract thank you I appreciate that Adam you’re the kind of blog I can just shake your hand that’s enough you know Yorkshire we don’t really do that many contracts we just shake the hands Adam and that’s but this has been great working with Adam he’s

Been so hospitable he’s been so wanting to do it wanting to know about our shows wanting to know about our Fighters it’s all good just coming and getting getting getting involved not really doing much Adam’s had a real passion towards it and took real interest and our team’s been

So like kind of honored to work with Adam and so happy and we made it easy for us and we appreciate you and this is going to be we made history because a comeback fight has been on GBM Sports and when I’ve got a massive TV platform

You could always say I’ve come and Jud on sure make sure he signs that contract before the other TV networks jumping he’s coming with us every every wherever we go out with us it’s say great to work with I love his love love his come back

Like I said we’ve got some good mutual friends and I know how much you’re passionate for the game and we’ve got the same kind of passion cuz yeah it’s all right earning money and yeah it’s a business I understand that but when you’ve got that element of passion for

The game and that hunger for the game and and hunger to be part of young young champions future and to have a game it’s just that some different is it that’s it that’s it for me it’s all about the the sports women the sports men I think uh

The stories just get me and I just you know when I was a kid there were there were the Pinups on my wall it was David G it was Sammy Lee from Liverpool and and Alex Hur Higgins you know I had them all on my wall boxing wise it was Baron

Mcgrigor and Tommy Hearns and you know what you know you get to work with these these incredible people and and now it’s it’s the Young Generation I’ve got three you know teenage kids myself and to see where they where they go and it’s all about storytelling and and it is passion

And I think that will always be in you it’s either in you or not and uh I I loved it whether I was going to come back and commentate on a world title fight or commentate on a a little four rounder it doesn’t bother me I have the

Respect of every fighter that gets in that ring and um I think that they uh they all did themselves proud tonight win or win or lose and um it was it was a really good night it was a brilliant night um I’ve got to finish by asking

You one thing because I know everyone is kind of wanting to hear your response to this the Tyson Fury cut the Undisputed fight delayed I know we’ve got a new date um kind of a lot has gone on in the time since the cut just I guess your

Take on on the whole situation I think the most important thing is that we get this fight on um they’re the two best do you believe it will happen on May 18 yes I do believe it will happen I think Tyson Fury um has you know has has had a

Savage cut and he’s you know whether whether it that may seems a slightly early for me I thought maybe it would be June or or July but I guess it works for them may best as I’m hoping that that cut just holds up because we have to see

This fight but no these things happen inpiring it happens two three weeks out it doesn’t happen a week out you know it does happen sometimes then and you know it’s just a shame it was a kick in kick in the guts for all of us you know the World Heavyweight unification we haven’t

Seen one for for 25 years and we remember Lewis and Holyfield but a long long time ago Alexander Rusk and Tyson Fury are the best fighters in the world we want to see them fight and we will in May I believe it will happen and um yeah

I I just I I’m just sorry I’m sorry for them and I’m sorry for the fans I just think and all the talk and all that that’s I’m I don’t get involved I think it’s about the fight I think it’s about Tyson Fury and Alexander RK providing

What we all need in boxing you know unified heavyweight champion and then you know AJ and andaru the winner fights and maybe we get Fury AJ or Alexander Rusk you know beats Fury and and and he goes on we’ve got to see these big fights happen and I think we will and an

Injury is an injury you know all this stuff about you know it’s been put on and it was fake I just I can’t I think it’s ridiculous Wall Street means Casino I’m fine and sports book