{"id":813822,"date":"2026-07-21T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813822\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:40:11","slug":"boxing-news-2026-tim-tszyu-nearly-retired-during-miami-training-camp-with-pedro-diaz-wife-comments-jeff-fenech-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813822\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing news 2026: Tim Tszyu nearly retired during Miami training camp with Pedro Diaz, wife comments, Jeff Fenech partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu<\/a>\u2019s wife Alex has revealed the Australian boxing superstar nearly retired during his stint training in Miami. <\/p>\n

The former world champion has undergone a myriad of changes over the past 12 months, cutting ties with his long-time team to originally link up with coach Pedro Diaz<\/a>, before making another change and joining forces with Jeff Fenech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tim Tszyu poses with Jeff Fenech.\u00a0Instagram\/@timtszyu<\/p>\n

Tszyu (27-3) has been searching for a way to get back to the top of the mountain, as he prepares to take on American rival Errol Spence Jr. on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it was during his stint with Diaz that the 31-year-old contemplated giving it all away, citing the ongoing toll associated with fighting at the highest level.<\/p>\n

\u201cTim called me while he was in camp in Miami and said \u2018that\u2019s it, I\u2019m retiring\u2019 and I said retiring? Why are you retiring, are you crazy?\u201d his wife said in a new behind-the-scenes video series on Tszyu\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said \u2018I know things aren\u2019t great at the moment, but we\u2019ll get through it\u2019 and he just said \u2018I can\u2019t deal with a problem every day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tszyu won his two fights with Diaz as his trainer, defeating Denis Nurja<\/a> and Anthony Velazquez<\/a>, but now has Aussie legend Fenech as his right-hand man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He believes the change was necessary at this point in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff is very outspoken, he says what\u2019s on his mind,\u201d Tszyu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like Jeff was the one I needed at this point of my career and my life and it\u2019s been a positive outlook ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fenech was rather outspoken about some of Tszyu\u2019s former mentors, most notably for how they handled his bloody defeat to Sebastian Fundora in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said that the team that he had were clowns and he had a trainer that didn\u2019t know anything about the rules and regulations of boxing in his first fight against Fundora … if they had brains, they would have stopped the fight and he would still be world champion,\u201d Fenech said, reiterating some of his past comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tszyu will take on Spence on Sunday (AEST) at Sydney\u2019s Afterpay Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu\u2019s wife Alex has revealed the Australian boxing superstar nearly retired during his stint training in Miami.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-813822","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\/813822","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=813822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}