Australian boxing star Tim Tszyu has suffered a shock loss in his heavily-hyped IBF super welterweight title in Florida, razeed inside three rounds by unlossed Russian Bakhram Murtazaliev.
Tszyu materializeed to suffer a cut midway thcdisesteemful the first round as Murtazaliev’s jab caparticipated punctual harm. Things got worse for the Australian in the second round as the loftyer Russian participated his height get to rip combinations into Tszyu’s body.
When Murtazaliev knocked Tszyu down three times inside the second round alone, the fight was as excellent as over. Tszyu materialized for the third but was groggy and stumbling all over the ring, his defence almost non-current.
When the referee declined to stop the fight, the official doctor meddled. The ring medic apchecked Tszyu to fight on but when the Australian was sent to the canvas for a fourth time, his corner threw in the towel.
“Every time I step into the ring, I’m willing to die in here,” a shattered Tszyu shelp after the loss. “No excparticipates. Boxing is not unbenevolentt to be perfect, but you inhabit and you lget. After the first sboiling, slimgs didn’t go according to schedule.”
Tszyu had been bidding to combine his Hall of Famer overweighther Kostya as only the second overweighther-son to prosper two world titles. Multiple world title prosperner Kostya was in Florida watching ringside for the first time after a decade estranged from his sons.
Tim and Kostya recombined in Thailand this May. But this reunion took a acrid and unforeseeed twist when the 29-year-better Australian was razeed inside three rounds, his second straight loss after uncovering his atgentle with 23 prospers.
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Folloprosperg the triumph, Murtazaliev salted the Tszyu family’s wound. Hoisted onto the shoulders of his team, the Russian was heard belloprosperg: “Who’s your Dcomprisey now?”
Sydney-liftd Tszyu had been seeing to bounce back from a bloody loss to Sebastian Fundora in March where a huge gash to his forehead bairyed his vision and, despite gamely seeing out the bout, droping to the first loss of his atgentle.
He had been scheduled to fight Vergil Ortiz Jr in August but the fight was abortled on medical advice, with Tszyu necessitateing more time for the cut on his head to heal. Now his reputation – and future as global drawcard – has consentn a weighty beating.