Tim Tszyu has knocked again ideas from IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev that he’s over-hyped, with a scathing put down simply days out from their junior middleweight world title struggle in Orlando on Sunday morning (AEDT).
Undefeated Russian champion Murtazaliev (22-0) informed media earlier this week that Tszyu was “probably the most hyped identify in boxing,” including that the Australian “talks rather a lot”.
“You may discuss rather a lot earlier than the struggle,” Murtazaliev informed US web site Struggle Hype.
“However doing it’s utterly totally different story.”
Tszyu countered by saying he’d heard all of it earlier than.
“I’ve listened to that for the reason that begin of my profession,” Tszyu stated.
“[It’s] not new. They preserve saying that, a pair have began respecting, however you then get one other one and once more, hype blah blah blah, increasingly bulls**t.
“It’s what it’s, I assume.”
Tim Tszyu misplaced his tremendous welterweight world title conflict with Sebastian Fundora in Las Vegas. (AP: John Locher)
The 31-year-old added that he had been averted his entire profession, which Tszyu (24-1) laughed off as “nonsense”.
“He retains saying that, Bakhram, he’s a lot averted,” Tszyu stated.
“That is nonsense.
“I have been chasing him for a very long time, in order that’s nonsense.”
As an alternative, Tszyu derided Murtazaliev as a “step-aside” fighter — somebody who is obtainable cash to step apart from title fights because of their lack of marketability, regardless of their excessive rating.
Murtazaliev had been paid off on this trend as many as 3 times by former undisputed mild middleweight champion Jermell Charlo.
The youthful of the 2 Charlo twins had additionally ducked Tszyu twice — formally because of a hand damage — earlier than being ordered handy over his WBO tremendous welterweight belt to the Aussie, who consolidated his standing as world champion by belting Brian Mendoza on the Gold Coast.
“”I am right here to take the largest challenges, the toughest fights, the largest fights and create a legacy and make a s**t-tonne of cash,” Tszyu stated.
Tim Tszyu says he’s extra marketable than his opponent. (Provided: No Restrict Boxing/Zain Mohammed)
“That is what I am right here for.
“Him [Murtazaliev] on the opposite facet, he is step-aside cash this and that and no matter man.
“We’re in two totally different worlds.”
Tszyu will probably be aiming to grow to be a two-time world champion, having surrendered his WBO belt in a brutal and bloody cut up choice defeat in opposition to Sebastian Fundora in March.
Murtazaliev, in the meantime, received the IBF strap by beating Jack Culcay by eleventh spherical knock out.
The Russian stated that he was “100 per cent” sure he would dispatch Tszyu in the identical manner.
Tszyu has solely been knocked down as soon as in his skilled profession, on his US debut in opposition to Terrell Gausha.
“[It’s a] powerful problem I assume,” Tszyu stated.
“However I am simply right here to point out that I am ranges above, it’s fairly easy.”
