Tim Tszyu says there’s no hurry for him and WBC interim junior middleweight champion Vergil Ortiz Jr. to combat. The 2 fighters had been alleged to combat on August third in a Riyadh Season occasion, however Tszyu needed to cancel the combat as a result of his reduce from his earlier combat wasn’t healed.
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This week, Tszyu had expressed curiosity in rescheduling in opposition to the unbeaten Ortiz Jr. (22-0, 21 KOs). Nonetheless, in an interview immediately, Tszyu modified his thoughts, saying there’s no “large rush” to combat the 26-year-old Vergil Jr.
Vergil Jr. lately captured the WBC interim 154-lb title in a questionable 12-round majority resolution win over Serhii Bohachuk on August tenth in Las Vegas. It was an in depth combat that simply may have gone the opposite means.
Certainly, many followers considered Bohachuk as deserving of the win, and so they had been troubled when Ortiz Jr. selected to not give him a rematch to clear up the controversy. The scores had been 114-112, 114-112 for Vergil Jr. and 113-113.
After the controversy over that combat, it’s not shocking that Tszyu isn’t in a rush to combat Ortiz Jr. and doubtlessly discover himself in the identical place. He would probably be the B-side, even when he got here into the combat with the IBF belt in his possession.
Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) will problem IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev this Saturday, October nineteenth, on the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. If Tszyu wins that combat, he’ll have a helpful chess piece to curiosity Terence Crawford or Errol Spence. These could be a lot larger cash fights than a conflict in opposition to Vergil Ortiz Jr.
“I don’t actually know, in all honesty. Proper now, I’ve acquired a plan. There are heaps of him. Me and him are younger. There’s not such an enormous rush to make it occur now,” stated Tim Tszyu to Battle Hub TV when requested about whether or not he’d wish to reschedule the combat with Vergil Ortiz Jr. “We’ve nonetheless acquired heaps of time left.”
It’s comprehensible why Tszyu, 29, wouldn’t wish to combat Vergil proper now. That may be a troublesome combat for him, and it wouldn’t carry within the cash that a few of the different fights would. Tszyu is keen on these fights:
– Terence Crawford
– Canelo Alvarez
– Errol Spence
– Sebastian Fundora
It’s unknown whether or not Crawford could be keen on combating Tszyu in a unification match, as a result of he was buying and selling message on social media this week in opposition to Conor McGregor.
“As quickly as I get a combat supplied, there’s no query, ‘Sure.’ I don’t want to observe tapes and give it some thought. Straightaway, ‘Sure.’ It simply so occurs that the reduce was nonetheless therapeutic,” stated Tszyu about his canceled combat on August third in opposition to Vergil Ortiz Jr.
“As quickly as I accepted the combat, it was a few days after I acquired my stitches out. So it was nonetheless recent. As quickly as I got here again from just a little coaching camp with my dad, it was nonetheless not able to go. Today, once you’re at this stage, you’ve acquired to be 100%. There’s no such factor as taking a brief nook and dashing issues and never doing issues professionally,” stated Tszyu about why his combat in opposition to Vergil Ortiz Jr. did not occur.
If Tszyu and Ortiz Jr. maintain profitable, they’ll ultimately meet up down the street. Nonetheless, it’s questionable whether or not we’ll see that combat occur within the subsequent two years as a result of there are loads of different extra compelling matchups for each.
“I’m comfortable within the place I’m at. What do I have to do? The whole lot is nice at this stage. If there’s large fights to be made, then yeah, we’ll begin speaking and think about it,” stated Tszyu when requested if he’d be keen on combating on the Riyadh Season playing cards. “Proper now, I’ve acquired all of the fights in entrance of me. So, we’ll see the way it goes.
“Yeah, 100%. I’ve principally moved right here,” stated Tszyu, when requested if he’d like all the massive fights in opposition to Errol Spence, Sebastian Fundora and Terence Crawford to occur within the U.S. “I’m dwelling in a home right here. I’ve been right here for the final three and a half months. I’m principally in America right here to dwell my dream.”
Spence is meant to be combating Fundora subsequent, and he’s not prone to win that combat. If Spence wins, a rematch between him and Crawford could be extra life like than a conflict in opposition to Tszyu. A combat between Spence and Tszyu could be entertaining if it occurs as a result of each guys are big punchers.
“It might be cracking,” stated Tszyu when requested what a combat between him and Crawford would appear like. “They are saying, ‘Kinds make fights.’ It might be one hell of a present, that one. I believe he did nicely,” stated Tszyu about Crawford’s efficiency in his debut at 154 in opposition to WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is specializing in getting the largest cash fights potential, and he’s not prone to conform to a match in opposition to Tszyu. He needs the PPV-level fighters or ones which have belts.
“Critics are at all times going to be like that, however I believe he did nicely. Madrimov is just not a bum. Folks have to grasp. 154 is a distinct division from 147. That’s one other factor. The boxing dynamic modifications in three months and 6 months.
“There’s a brand new winner; there’s a brand new loser. There are entertaining fights, and a few folks’s inventory goes up, and a few folks’s inventory goes down,” stated Tszyu when requested who he needs to combat in 2025.
Tszyu is quiet about who he needs to combat subsequent yr, however he needs to combat Crawford, Spence, or Canelo. If he can’t get any of these fighters, he’ll shoot for a combat in opposition to Fundora if he nonetheless holds the WBC and WBO 154-lb belts.
