Controversy is currently afoot in Australia, this ahead of Tim Tszyu’s scheduled fight with Joey Spencer. The two are set to fight this weekend, in Newcastle, Australia, but Spencer is fuming having learned that all three scoring officials for the bout will be Australian.
Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) needs a win in the worst way in his fight against Joey Spencer (19-1, 11 KOs) on April 6th to set up a bigger one against Keith Thurman in the summer.
Keith Thurman and Tim Tszyu could meet this summer in a non-PPV event. The two were supposed to fight last year on March 30th, but Thurman suffered a biceps injury and had to pull out.
Promoter Tom Loeffler says he contacted PBC to let them know he’s interested in setting up a fight between his fighter, Serhii Bohachuk, and former undisputed junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo.
Boxing great Kostya Tszyu is known as a man who pushed himself harder than hard when training for a fight. Now, 55 year old Tszyu wants his two boxing sons, Tim and Nikita, to “spend some time in discomfort” in a training camp in Russia.
Chris Algieri points out that Tim Tszyu is now being viewed by fans as being washed up after suffering his second consecutive defeat last Saturday night in a third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in Orlando, Flordia.
#3-ranked contender Erickson Lubin says he’s ready to challenge IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) next. Lubin states that he was supposed to have fought Murtazaliev, but the negotiations didn’t work out.
Keith Thurman says Tim Tszyu is a “broken and distraught” fighter after his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev last Saturday night in Orlando.
Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) has got to make a lot of changes in his game for him to successfully come back from his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) from last Saturday night at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Sergio Mora is blaming Tim Tszyu’s third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on “bad matchmaking” for taking on this killer last Saturday night in an ill-advised fight at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.