{"id":151586,"date":"2025-09-18T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151586\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:39:10","slug":"shawn-porter-offers-to-help-tim-tszyu-after-shock-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151586\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter offers to help Tim Tszyu after shock split"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Tim Tszyu\u2019s closest American allies has expressed shock at his bombshell decision to sack his team and has offered to help the Sydneysider in his planned move to the United States.<\/p>\n

Two-time world-champion Shawn Porter has forged a bond with Tszyu through his regular trips to Australia to commentate on the \u2018Soul Taker\u2019s\u2019 fights as an expert analysts for Fox Sports\u2019 Main Event coverage.<\/p>\n

Tszyu (25-3) took to social media in recent days to cryptically foreshadow major changes in his bid to become a world champion again following his crushing loss to Sebastian Fundora in their rematch in Las Vegas in July.<\/p>\n

Those changes have included severing ties with his uncle and trainer Igor Golubev and manager Glen Jennings<\/a>, who has a 30-year association with the Tszyu family after being part of father Kostya\u2019s entourage.<\/p>\n

But the most seismic shift is Tszyu leaving Australia and setting up base overseas, with Las Vegas-based Porter offering to assist the 30-year-old in his dream to conquer America.<\/p>\n

\u201cTim 100 per cent has my support in anything he does,\u201d Porter told this masthead from his home in Vegas. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnything he needs, I will do my best to provide help over here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter has covered the biggest fights of Tszyu\u2019s career, including his blockbusters against Tony Harrison, Brian Mendoza, Sebastian Fundora and Bakhram Murtazaliev over the past two years.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed \u2018Showtime\u2019, former welterweight star Porter was surprised by Tszyu\u2019s decision to part ways with Golubev and Jennings given their strong family ties.<\/p>\n

Well-placed sources say Tszyu believes he has reached the end of the developmental road with Golubev and needs a fresh voice to help him scale the world-title summit again.<\/p>\n

Golubev formerly trained a young George Kambosos before \u2018Ferocious\u2019 decided to head to America in his successful bid to become a world champion _ and now Tszyu is following the same path.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised because I know the relational side of his team is deep,\u201d Porter said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised from that stand point, and I hope it\u2019s a conscious decision by him and not something encouraged by outside noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as he finds the right trainers with the right facilities he\u2019ll be just fine. <\/p>\n

\u201cDistractions are minimal here for someone like Tim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right coach can improve his style and his sparring level will be higher, which will naturally make him better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will improve in America.\u201d <\/p>\n

Last year, on the eve of his world-title fight against Murtazaliev in Orlando, Tszyu told this masthead of his intention to move to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

But after suffering a savage third-round beatdown against the hard-hitting Russian, Tszyu put relocation plans on hold to prepare for his comeback fight against Joey Spencer in Newcastle in April.<\/p>\n

Born in Sydney, Tszyu has called the Harbour City home and it was the scene of his victory over Tony Harrison in 2023 at Qudos Bank Arena which saw him clinch the WBO interim world title.<\/p>\n

But he clearly believes a move to \u2018Tszyu-SA\u2019 will help him find another level required to save his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big dream of mine to make it here in America,\u201d Tszyu said last October.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said goodbye to Australia and started to look at houses here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely moving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like for me … I\u2019m a young kid trying to fulfil his destiny.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, yes, I\u2019ve slowly started looking for houses and cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future does belong here in America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Tim Tszyu\u2019s closest American allies has expressed shock at his bombshell decision to sack his team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85,5942],"class_list":{"0":"post-151586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tim-tszyu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}