{"id":827573,"date":"2026-07-27T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:45:08","slug":"tim-bradley-sums-up-errol-spence-jrs-performance-against-tim-tszyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827573\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley sums up Errol Spence Jr’s performance against Tim Tszyu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Errol Spence Jr<\/a> suffered the second loss of his career when he was beaten by Tim Tszyu on Saturday, with that defeat causing him to retire from the sport<\/a>. Now, two-division world champion Tim Bradley has offered his thoughts on the American\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

Spence lost for the first time when he came up short against Terence Crawford<\/a> when bidding for the undisputed welterweight world title in 2023, then a three-year stretch of inactivity left fans questioning whether the Texas-based operator would ever fight again.<\/p>\n

Yet, on Saturday night, the former unified WBC, WBA and IBF welterweight world champion made his ring return, appearing in a middleweight clash against Tszyu in Australia.<\/p>\n

From the opening bell onwards, it appeared as though Spence\u2019s previous injuries, combined with his age and inactivity, had caught up with him and that his ability had faded as a result, lacking the power or speed to cause his Aussie opponent too much trouble.<\/p>\n

Spence\u2019s mentality saw him remain competitive in the fight and last the distance, after which a unanimous-decision and career-best win was awarded to the home fighter. On his YouTube channel<\/a>, Bradley noted that Spence\u2019s balance was off throughout the affair and admitted the performance was \u2018hard to watch.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was hard to watch, I\u2019m not going to lie to y\u2019all man. There was times when I was watching that s**t and I felt like jumping through the T.V. and helping Spence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis body betrayed his a** last night. It goes to show that, you know what, you can have that mental, but your body is going to do what it is going to do once that age sets in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like Spence was on ice skates at times when he got hit, his whole body trembled. His balance was all off, it was like he was in high heels or some s**t. He was leaning forward, top-heavy like a motherf***a.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly after the judges\u2019 verdict was confirmed, Spence revealed that the bout would be his last, walking away from boxing at the age of 36 with a record of 28-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr suffered the second loss of his career when he was beaten by Tim Tszyu on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-827573","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\/827573","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=827573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}