Erickson Lubin says he wants to challenge IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev next. The #3 ranked Lubin (28-2, 16 KOs) revealed that Tim Tszyu already had plans to fight him next if he’d beaten Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) last Saturday night, but with him…
Tim Tszyu delayed his departure from Orlando, Florida to go to hospital in the aftermath of his stoppage at the hands of Bakhram Murtazaliev at the Caribe Royale.
The 29-year-old suffered with concussion after being dropped by the heavy-handed Russian, 29, four times in…
Jaron ‘Boots’ is doing well as the IBF welterweight champion, facing nondescript opposition for Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom, but I don’t think he’s got a chance if he chooses to move up to face Bakhram Murtazaliev for his IBF junior middleweight title.
Ennis (32-0, 29 KO)…
On Sunday in Orlando, the impression made by Bakhram Murtazaliev’s stoppage of Tim Tszyu has ensured that so much of what came before it has become little more than an afterthought. Little over a week before fight night, however, plans had existed to relocate their…
Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) has got to make a lot of changes in his game for him to successfully come back from his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) from last Saturday night at the Caribe Royale…
All of the goodwill Tim Tszyu has both earned and attracted with his fighting heart and spirit will likely count for little today.
It is a lonely place, being Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena.
Rocked and dropped repeatedly by Bakhram Murtazaliev at the…
Keith Thurman believes Bakhram Murtazaliev has done enough to merit a chance with the big names at junior middleweight.
Florida’s Thurman, 35, who held the WBC welterweight title in 2017, said Murtazaliev’s devastating third-round stoppage win over Tim Tszyu on Saturday night places him…
Bill Haney lit into Ryan Garcia today on social media about his bold talk despite never having captured a world title to back it up. Papa Haney says Ryan is “yapping” but hasn’t signed up for random drug testing. He sees Ryan as a “fake.”…
Sergio Mora is blaming Tim Tszyu’s third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on “bad matchmaking” for taking on this killer last Saturday night in an ill-advised fight at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
The commentator and…