{"id":859643,"date":"2026-08-18T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:14:09","slug":"former-undisputed-champion-says-he-is-fighting-tim-tszyu-next-were-working-on-the-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859643\/","title":{"rendered":"Former undisputed champion says he is fighting Tim Tszyu next: \u201cWe’re working on the location\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu<\/a> scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr last time out, and now it seems as though the Aussie will take on another tough assignment, with a showdown against a former undisputed world champion supposedly in the works.<\/p>\n

Tszyu was knocked out by Sebastian Fundora for a second time in their rematch for the WBC super-welterweight world title last year, but the 31-year-old has responded with a trifecta of wins on home soil and has recently appointed Australian boxing legend, Jeff Fenech, as his lead trainer.<\/p>\n

Last month, he handed Spence Jr a final career defeat,<\/a> with the Texan announcing his retirement during the aftermath, whilst Tszyu looked poised to challenge Erislandy Lara for the WBA middleweight title after unveiling plans to make a permanent switch to the 160lb division.<\/p>\n

However, according to Lance Pugmire, former undisputed super-welterweight world champion Jermell Charlo has informed him that his next outing will be against Tszyu.<\/p>\n

Story update: Told by @TwinCharlo<\/a> that talks of him fighting Ortiz is \u201cnot true at all.. I talked to Al (Haymon) myself and I\u2019m (fighting) Tim (Tszyu) next, working on location..\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lance Pugmire (@pugboxing) August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlo has not fought since an underwhelming challenge for Canelo Alvarez\u2019s undisputed super-middleweight crown back in September 2023<\/a>, but it seems \u2018Iron Man\u2019 is now planning on breathing new life into the middleweight scene; which is in desperate need of a new poster boy.<\/p>\n

It is still possible that Tszyu could either be using Charlo as leverage for his negotiations with Lara or simply eyeing the American up for a potential first defence, if able to dethrone the 43-year-old Cuban in their rumoured December scrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr last time out, and now it seems as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-859643","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\/859643","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=859643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}