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Speaking with Fox Sports Australia, Tszyu told how the Englishman\u2019s crew had only recently visited his new training base in Miami, Florida as part of their trying to find somewhere to prepare for this weekend\u2019s bout against Youtuber-turned-boxer Paul. <\/p>\n
And after speaking at length with Team Joshua, and getting a gauge for how seriously their man is taking the fight, Tszyu said he was predicting a second round KO for the puncher who is \u201ccoming to make a s*** tonne of money and hurt Jake Paul\u201d.<\/p>\n
While he may be on a run of three straight world title losses himself, Tszyu is being heavily favoured by oddsmakers to begin his \u201crise from the ashes\u201d in this Wednesday\u2019s Sydney headliner against American Anthony Velazquez.<\/p>\n
“Going to quit again”: Coach blasts Tim | 05:02<\/p>\n
Apart from being undefeated in all 19 professional appearances, Velazquez also boasts a KO ratio above 80 per cent. <\/p>\n
Tszyu, however, has endured a heavy amount in criticism in recent times following a run of outs that includes losing his world title in a Sebastian Fundora bloodbath, getting kayoed by Bakhram Murtazliev, and most recently being forced to retire on his stool in a Fundora rematch. <\/p>\n
It was also after that most recent loss against Fundora in July — where he retired on his stool after seven rounds — that Tszyu surprisingly found himself in the crosshairs of the promoter dubbed boxing\u2019s most powerful man.<\/p>\n
Taking to \u2018X\u2019 immediately after the loss, Alalshikh tweeted: \u201cI said to you from the beginning, Tim Tszyu does not deserve to be on a Riyadh Season or Ring magazine card. He can be useful as a sparring partner for a champion in Riyadh season\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tim Tszyu and Turki Alalshikh.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
While the sledge was deleted soon after, it continued a bizarre run of words between Team Tszyu and the heavyweight promoter who works with fellow Australian star Jai Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Initially, the beef was ignited after Tszyu\u2019s team had the fighter walk away from a proposed 2024 Alalshikh fight against undefeated American Vergil Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Team Tszyu suggested the withdrawal was due to their man having not adequately recovered from a now infamous head wound suffered against Fundora only months earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not work with Tim Tszyu,\u201d Alalshikh said soon after. \u201cLet him do [things] his way, he doesn\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later added of Team Tszyu that \u201cthere\u2019s something unclear with the communications from his team with our team, so I believe I will reconsider his situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked for a response at the time, Tszyu suggested it \u201ckind of felt like a young kid that didn\u2019t get a lollipop\u201d, and suggested he would ignore it. <\/p>\n
Yet as he now readies to begin his push toward a second world title, Tszyu stressed his new management team, and promoters No Limit, could absolutely work with His Excellency moving forward.<\/p>\n
Tim Tszyu out for career resurrection | 02:05<\/p>\n
But as for his thoughts on that now deleted tweet?<\/p>\n
\u201cI dunno, man,\u201d Tszyu told Fox Sports Australia with a shrug. \u201cI do feel like it\u2019s a bit of a low act, tweeting something like that about anyone who is down.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m also OK with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause with all the stuff that went on, I\u2019m still not even really sure what happened there. Or who was actually involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just the fighter, man.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not for me to get involved in all that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m OK [with the tweet] because I\u2019ll be back.<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually back not only fighting for a world title again, but holding one.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I know when that happens, all the talk will be different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Tszyu also revealed how he had recently caught up with Anthony Joshua\u2019s team in Miami, with the crew visiting his new base at Mundo Boxing Gym while scouting possible training locations for this weekend\u2019s Florida showdown with Paul.<\/p>\n
Asked his biggest takeaway from the meeting and Tszyu replied: \u201cAnthony Joshua isn\u2019t f***ing around \u2026 he\u2019s coming to hurt Jake Paul.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you this is a real fight for him, and he\u2019s taking things really seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I really took from the conversion.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoshua is coming to make a s*** tonne of money and hurt Jake Paul — that\u2019s the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joshua announced to fight Jake Paul | 00:48<\/p>\n
And as for a prediction?<\/p>\n
\u201cWell firstly, I\u2019ve got to give big respect to Jake Paul for taking this fight,\u201d he said. \u201cBut how long it goes? Probably two rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I think Anthony Joshua is taking this one to the extreme.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen his team even came to our gym, checking out different locations where they could potentially base themselves for fight week, we talked about his preparations, how he feels.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he\u2019s coming to hurt Jake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tszyu, meanwhile, has been under fire himself recently.<\/p>\n
Apart from having lost all three of his most recent world title fights in the US, the fighter\u2019s most recent two outings involve retiring on his stool against Fundora and being brutally knocked out by IBF king Bakhram Murtazaliev.<\/p>\n
As a result, plenty of questions have been asked about the Sydneysider\u2019s defence and what, if anything, new Cuban coach Pedro Diaz can do to fix it.<\/p>\n
Yet rather than teaching a new style, Tszyu stressed Diaz has instead been tasked with reviving the ability already within a fighter who in 2023 rose to a world title via the international scalps of Tony Harrison, Carlos Ocampo, and Brian Mendoza.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I didn\u2019t get hit,\u201d Tszyu stresses. \u201cSame in my fight earlier this year with Joey Spencer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys, they\u2019re all good fighters.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they couldn\u2019t touch me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst Murtazaliev, yes, I got hit with a shot early.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was concussed, couldn\u2019t feel anything and became like a walking target.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen with Fundora, when you\u2019ve got someone that tall, that awkward, punches coming from all sorts of directions, it is always going to be difficult to manoeuvre.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith all of that, Fundora\u2019s going to be a problem for anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I know as a result people have been critical of me, saying I\u2019m not defensively sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in all honesty, I think my defence is underrated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just really need to trigger some things. Bring out what I know a bit more.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd even in a short time with Pedro Diaz, I can tell you that defensively I\u2019m seeing things much better now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu has opened up on his bizarre feud with boxing\u2019s most powerful man – billionaire Saudi promoter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-344069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}