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The American fighter eventually looked away towards the crowd as Tszyu continued to glare in his direction for several more seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just really locked in,\u201d Tszyu explained afterwards, before promising to produce \u201cpoetry\u201d with his hands tomorrow night.<\/p>\n
Host Ben Damon admitted he\u2019d never seen Tszyu so focussed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was intense wasn\u2019t it? Tim just wouldn\u2019t look away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnthony Velazquez, he was done wasn\u2019t he, he wanted to take off and rehydrate, but Tim Tszyu was fully focused and that was an intense Tim Tszyu.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen him do that before. I\u2019ve seen him stare at guys, trying to out-will guys, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former world champ Liam Paro was impressed by what he saw out of Tszyu.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe looks calm, relaxed and healthy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, Paro stressed that the stakes couldn\u2019t be higher for Tszyu.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite frankly it\u2019s do-or-die for Tim\u2019s career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Both fighters made weight, with the American coming in on the scales at 71.04 kg, while Tszyu was a touch lighter at 70.82 kg.<\/p>\n
Velazquez, who boasts an impressive knockout rate of 83 per cent, made it crystal clear that he wasn\u2019t just coming to take part.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m coming to win,\u201d he said. \u201cMy hand is going to be raised!\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, tensions did boil over when Jason Fawcett and Marco Romeo weighed in ahead of their welterweight clash.<\/p>\n
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After a heated exchange of words, Fawcett slapped Romeo across the face before officials jumped in to separate the pair.<\/p>\n
Both fighters could be heard hurling insults at each other as they were moved off the stage.<\/p>\n
Old foes Sam Goodman and Tyler Blizzard also had a tense staredown on Tuesday ahead of their featherweight contest.<\/p>\n
Much has been said in the lead-up between the pair, but Blizzard said he would prefer to let his fists do the talking tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ready to handle business,\u201d he said after the icy staredown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will punch each other in the face to sort it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodman, coming off his recent world title thriller in Saudi Arabia, said he could only see one outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hand raised, a dominant victory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu has engaged in a tense and prolonged staredown with Anthony Velazquez at Tuesday\u2019s weigh-in ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-350878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350878","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=350878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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