Breaking his silence after a brutal third-round knockout, Tim Tszyu has laid naked the toll of his second profession defeat. Chatting with Fox Information Australia, the Aussie fighter revealed harrowing particulars about his bodily and emotional restoration. “I couldn’t really feel my legs, and my mind was fuzzy. Each shot I used to be hit with felt like a bomb exploding,” Tszyu mentioned, recalling the battle. “In my head, I assumed, ‘This motherf***er goes to need to kill me to get me out of right here.’”
The battle ended with Tszyu knocked down 4 occasions, struggling his first concussion. He spent the evening in hospital, unable to sleep. “It was a bizarre feeling,” he mentioned. “What burns me is that I wasn’t in a position to present myself. I simply obtained humiliated and embarrassed in entrance of the entire world.”
Including to the sting of defeat, Tszyu’s fiancée, Alex, endured vile abuse from trolls. “Folks say issues to her and stuff like that, however the reality she’s in a position to deal with it exhibits her character,” he mentioned. “To not my missus, to not my household. That’s not proper.”
Regardless of the setbacks, Tszyu stays defiant. “I don’t know what number of occasions I obtained knocked down, however it doesn’t matter what, I used to be at all times going to maintain getting again up. I used to be able to die in there,” he mentioned.
Now, Tszyu needs to reconnect together with his roots and Australian followers. “I need to take it again old skool—no expertise, no stats, no numbers. Simply pure grind. I really feel like I left my Aussie followers behind to chase the celebs,” he admitted. “Australia’s at all times been in my coronary heart.”
And he couldn’t assist a jab at American espresso: “You’ll be able to’t get good espresso in Vegas. I missed my canine, my missus, the contemporary Aussie air, and my native espresso store.”
