Jason stormed the ring and punched veteran trainer Tommy Mercuri in the mouth<\/a> a year ago as Michael\u2019s fight with Tommy Browne descended into chaos. <\/p>\n\u201cThat was all dealt with. It should\u2019ve never happened,\u201d Zerafa, who fights American Mikey Dahlman on Wednesday, told Code Sports. \u201cIt\u2019s all in the past, ubt I just keep him at home. It\u2019s safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no official ban, but it\u2019s just safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about Tim\u2019s absence, Zerafa said: \u201cI just assumed he would be here. I didn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tension between Nikita and Zerafa reached fever pitch last week when \u2018The Butcher\u2019 threatened to end the Melbourne-boxer\u2019s career if they ever fought. <\/p>\n
Despite threats from promoter No Limit that Sydney boxer Brock Jarvis could leapfrog him and get a big-money fight with Nikita, Zerafa only has eyes for Tim. <\/p>\n
\u201cRespectfully, No Limit needs to get their act together,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s me against Nikita, it\u2019s Brock against Nikita, then back to me. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not doing what the Tszyus do and looking past my opponent. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe rivalry is between me and Tim, that\u2019s the one they should be going with. I\u2019ve got no beef with Nikita.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, they\u2019re behind me. Tim\u2019s out of the top 15 and Nikita\u2019s not even in the top 20. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ranked in all the sanctioning bodies in the world. They\u2019re making it out like I need them. I\u2019m an opportunity for Tim to bounce back and for Nikita to make a name for himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically they need me, I don\u2019t need them.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut a big number at the front and a lot of zeroes, then we\u2019ll have a chat, or put a world title on the line, but what does Nikita do for my career? <\/p>\n
\u201cSame with Tim, despite giving Aussie fans a good fight and a big payday, what does it do for my career?\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, Nikita is happy to fight Zerafa next, but would also welcome a showdown with one-time sparring partner Brock Jarvis too. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy to fight with Brock. He\u2019s got a very sellable face,\u201c he said. \u201dHe\u2019s the pretty boy. <\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough he was unsuccessful with Keith Thurman, he\u2019s still a dangerous opponent. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe comes to win, fights hard, he\u2019s muscular and strong so he\u2019s always going to be dangerous. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a pretty face, and a punchable face.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ice cold Nikita Tszyu has hit back at trolls criticising older brother Tim for not being ringside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-74544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544","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=74544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}