{"id":615330,"date":"2026-06-01T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615330\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:04:08","slug":"tim-tszyu-responds-to-terence-crawfords-prediction-for-his-fight-against-errol-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu responds to Terence Crawford’s prediction for his fight against Errol Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu<\/a> has fired back at Terence Crawford<\/a>, promising to prove him wrong when he locks horns with Errol Spence Jr on July 25.<\/p>\n

The pair will collide at a catchweight of 158lbs in Australia, where both former world champions hope to reignite their careers.<\/p>\n

For Tszyu, this represents a chance to secure his first significant victory since 2023, back when he claimed the WBO super-welterweight title against Brian Mendoza.<\/p>\n

After that, the Australian lost a split decision to Sebastian Fundora in 2024, before suffering a more punishing third-round stoppage defeat to Bakhram Murtazaliev that same year.<\/p>\n

Tszyu\u2019s relevance at world level was then further diminished by a seventh-round stoppage loss to Fundora<\/a> last July, with the 31-year-old now hoping to re-join the world scene at 154lbs.<\/p>\n

In order to do so, he must first defeat Spence, who has not fought since getting stopped in nine rounds by a masterful Crawford<\/a> in July 2023.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, \u2018The Truth\u2019 was considered among the welterweight elite but, now, at the age of 36, it remains to be seen exactly what he has left to offer.<\/p>\n

Yet despite the American returning from a three-year layoff, Crawford still believes his former foe has what it takes to defeat Tszyu.<\/p>\n

In response, Tszyu has told Jai McAllister<\/a> that, while he respects Crawford\u2019s opinion, he ultimately intends to prove the former three-division undisputed champion wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s got something to say \u2013 I respect that. Crawford knows his boxing but, unfortunately, when that fight [with Spence] does happen, it\u2019s not going to go down that path.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a home advantage and a greater run of activity, Tszyu certainly has several reasons to be confident ahead of his showdown with Spence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu has fired back at Terence Crawford, promising to prove him wrong when he locks horns with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615330","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\/615330","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=615330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}