{"id":679634,"date":"2026-05-18T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:57:12","slug":"boxing-news-tim-tszyu-vs-errol-spence-carlos-ocampo-prediction-only-man-to-have-fought-both-australian-and-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679634\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing news: Tim Tszyu vs Errol Spence, Carlos Ocampo prediction, only man to have fought both Australian and American"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only man to have shared the ring with both Australia\u2019s Tim Tszyu and American superstar Errol Spence Jr. believes he already knows who will get their hand raised when the pair finally collide later this year.<\/p>\n

The comments come as Spence\u2019s new coach Ronnie Shields revealed what has surprised him most about \u201cThe Truth\u201d since the former unified welterweight king returned to training camp.<\/p>\n

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Spence is set to end a three-year layoff when he faces Tszyu in a blockbuster Australian showdown on July 26<\/a>, with the venue still yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Mexican fighter Carlos Ocampo \u2013 who challenged Spence for the IBF welterweight world title in 2018 before facing Tszyu in Australia five years later \u2013 gave a brief prediction to Fox Sports Australia, backing the Sydneysider to get the job done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be a comfortable fight for Tim,\u201d Ocampo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see him winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ocampo expects Tszyu to do enough to claim victory, he doesn\u2019t believe the Australian will stop Spence \u2013 unlike Terence Crawford did in Spence\u2019s last outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will go to a decision in a very close fight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yet inside Spence\u2019s camp, confidence appears to be growing.<\/p>\n

Mexican boxing star Carlos OcampoSource: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n

Sparring partner and former world champion Brian Norman Jr. has already spoken about Spence pushing a relentless pace in the gym<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Shields has revealed he has been impressed by the condition the former unified champion has returned in following his lengthy layoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSurprisingly to me, after being off for three years, he looks really great,\u201d Shields told FightHype.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI told him from the beginning, \u2018I want to see what you\u2019ve got\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to push you hard\u2019, and he said, \u2018I\u2019m ready\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat let me know he\u2019s been working out and staying on top of his conditioning. That\u2019s what I really wanted to see.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pushed him fast and hard, and he hung right in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018You\u2019re good\u2019, and now we\u2019ll come up with a game plan and work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many in the boxing world have debated whether the three-year layoff will ultimately help or hinder \u201cThe Big Fish\u201d, particularly given the added toll of injuries he sustained in a car crash in 2019.<\/p>\n

But Shields believes the break may ultimately extend Spence\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery fighter is different,\u201d says Shields.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Errol, he\u2019s switched up a whole lot of things in his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow he\u2019s more focussed on how he eats, what he eats, he doesn\u2019t party or anything of that stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just added more time to his career by doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Errol Spence and Tim TszyuSource: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n

When asked how he compares to the younger Spence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks really good,\u201d said Shields.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil we go through a full camp I don\u2019t know. We will have to wait and see\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Shields also paid respect to Tszyu\u2019s durability and mentality ahead of the showdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cTim Tszyu is a really good fighter, he\u2019ll fight anybody,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t take that away from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of heart. It definitely plays a big factor in the sport of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spence\u2019s preparations will have also been buoyed by the form of his sparring partner, Brian Norman Jr., who produced an emphatic performance over the weekend with a dominant victory over Josh Wagner.<\/p>\n

The former world champ looked sharp from the opening bell claiming a second round TKO win, backing up his recent claims about the intensity in camp.<\/p>\n

Just days earlier, Norman had also made a bold prediction of his own, tipping Spence to stop Tszyu inside the first round.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see a different version of Errol Spence,\u201d he told FightHype.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he\u2019s going to be better than he was in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what I mean by that is, first round knockout coming soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cTim Tszyu is going to sleep, man.<\/p>\n

Spence Jr. vows all-out war with Tszyu | 13:36<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boy ain\u2019t got nothing for him. My boy coming to Australia to give him the work, you feel me?<\/p>\n

\u201cErrol Spence is going to be a great fighter (again). I\u2019ve seen him in camp, hell of a fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only man to have shared the ring with both Australia\u2019s Tim Tszyu and American superstar Errol Spence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-679634","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\/679634","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=679634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}