Sergio Mora is blaming Tim Tszyu’s third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on “unhealthy matchmaking” for taking over this killer final Saturday evening in an ill-advised battle on the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
The commentator and former 154-lb world champion ‘The Latin Snake’ Extra feels that Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) shouldn’t have chosen the little-known IBF belt-holder Murtazaliev in his first battle again after a mentally deflating 12-round break up resolution defeat in opposition to Sebastian Fundora earlier this yr on March thirtieth. In Mora’s view, preventing Murtazaliev so quickly after that defeat was a mistake.
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Mora’s play-it-safe perspective in direction of Tszyu’s profession is off-putting to followers on social media, who’re roasting him for commenting on his resolution to problem Murtazaliev. They really feel the cherry-picking philosophy that Mora advises is what’s fallacious with the game and why boxing isn’t mainstream just like the NFL and NBA. For boxing to develop, promoters and fashionable fighters must be prepared to take 50-50 fights.
It’s unclear if Mora would have favored Tszyu preventing a harmful puncher like Murtazaliev at any level in his profession, even underneath the best circumstances, as a result of it will have been a foul enterprise transfer. Murtazaliev isn’t well-known by followers within the U.S. or Australia.
The one factor the Grozny, Russia-born Murtazaliev needed to provide Tszyu was his IBF belt, which Tim needed to make use of as a chess piece to enhance his negotiating energy to arrange profitable fights in opposition to Terence Crawford and Fundora.
It’s important to commend Tszyu for taking over this harmful KO artist, Murtazaliev, as a result of he confirmed braveness in preventing a man who had been prevented by the opposite prime fighters at 154, together with former undisputed champion Jermell Charlo.
Why didn’t the so-called greatest fighter within the junior middleweight champion, Terence Crawford, select to battle Murtazaliev when he moved as much as 154? The reply is clear. He didn’t assume he might win, so he selected a lesser champion, Israil Madrimov.
Unhealthy MATCHMAKING has knocked out Tim Tszyu out of the championship combine.
— Sergio Mora (@TheLatinSnake_) October 20, 2024
Hate to “punch” a person when he’s down, however Tim coming again in opposition to Murtazaliev was simply not sensible, man! An excessive amount of 🥜 not sufficient 🧠 #TszyuMurtazaliev
— Sergio Mora (@TheLatinSnake_) October 20, 2024
Tim Tszyu coming off a troublesome SD loss in opposition to a 6’6 SOUTHPAW with 80’ attain and what does he do subsequent? Resolve to battle a robust, undefeated Russian champion! #TszyuMurtazaliev
— Sergio Mora (@TheLatinSnake_) October 20, 2024
