For his part, Tsyzu, wearing sunglasses, looked healthy and strolled around with the relaxed demeanour of a tourist on their way to a hotel swimming pool. BoxingScene previously witnessed him that relaxed on the eve of a fight when he travelled to Orlando, Florida to challenge the heavy-handed IBF junior-middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in 2024. But what ultimately seemed far more relevant at the Rabbitohs’ training ground is not that he lost that night to Murtazaliev – it was that despite having a defeat on his record by the time he arrived in Orlando, Tszyu believed he had deserved the decision in his previous contest against Sebastian Fundora and what could be detected was the air of invincibility worn by a fighter who didn’t believe that they could lose. Murtazaliev, damagingly, taught Tszyu beyond doubt that he could, and in their rematch Fundora then reminded him of that reality once again.
