Keith Thurman says Tim Tszyu proved that he was a “cookie-cutter” made for IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) by walking straight into his power shots in his third-round knockout on Saturday night at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Tszyu’s…
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Tim Tszyu was talking such big, indeed great things going into last night’s fight with the somewhat little-known Bakhram Murtazaliev; how he was back after suffering that, we thought, freak loss to the towering Sebastian Fundora, how the Tszyu name would “forever go down as…
IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) blitzed Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs), scoring a lightning-quick third-round TKO on Saturday night in Orlando, Florida.
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Murtazaliev, 31, made a statement with his four-knockdown, third-round stoppage of the former WBO…
Tim Tszyu struggled to remember what had happened in the ring with Bakhram Murtazaliev at the conclusion of what could prove the most damaging night of his career.
The Australian was dropped four times by the IBF junior-middleweight champion at the Caribe Royale in…
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IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) says Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) “didn’t expect” the left hook that he hurt him with initially in the second round, which made the shot doubly powerful on his third round TKO win over the former…
Bakhram Murtazaliev described Tim Tszyu as a “real man” after watching him bravely and recklessly attempt to trade with him throughout the process of suffering four knockdowns and a defeat inside three rounds.
The Russian made the first defence of his IBF junior-middleweight title…