{"id":597839,"date":"2026-05-22T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597839\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:44:09","slug":"fenech-says-tszyu-would-still-be-champion-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597839\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenech Says Tszyu Would Still Be Champion Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019d be a world champion still today,\u201d said Fenech to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxingscene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to know the rules before a fight. Those people didn\u2019t even know they could stop the fight. I love Tim. I spoke to him after, and he was happy that he was heroic. Getting through the cut itself was heroic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Tim\u2019s been through that now. He knows what we\u2019ve got to do. He\u2019s got someone he can trust in the corner now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tszyu\u2019s career spun in the wrong direction after the bloody 12-round split-decision loss to Fundora in March 2024. He later suffered a third-round knockout loss to Bakhram Murtazaliev and then dropped a rematch against Fundora before deciding to rebuild his team around Fenech ahead of his July 26 fight against Errol Spence Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian star admitted he drifted too far from the pressure style that helped make him one of the sport\u2019s most dangerous offensive fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStylistically, I was getting caught up in the Cuban style, a rhythmic style,\u201d Tszyu said. \u201cThis fight, I wanted a change in my approach. As much as I tried to do things different, I feel my style lends itself best to pressure, with punches, trying to drown my opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho best to learn from than Jeff Fenech?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fenech made it clear Tszyu is returning to an aggressive style after consecutive losses damaged his standing at 154 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re saying is 1 million percent right: Tim Tszyu is going to be there, but he\u2019s going to be in the right position,\u201d Fenech said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, after he throws a combination, we\u2019ll throw another one. We\u2019re not going to give him the opportunity to hit us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tszyu sounded equally direct about his mindset for the Spence fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that\u2019s what\u2019s going through my head: Take him out,\u201d Tszyu said. \u201cThis one\u2019s a different approach, you know? We\u2019re coming for war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom Galm is a boxing journalist who has covered the global fight landscape since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, industry trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019d be a world champion still today,\u201d said Fenech to Boxingscene. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to know the rules before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}