Ave Tszyu is a man on a mission.
He is not unique in that aspect. Every boxer is the same.
Focus focused on work and everything to improve that next fight.
The most important fight.
The salvation.
“The typical thing is that the next is always the most important,” Tzyu (25-2) tells ABC Sport before he left Australia to the US earlier this month.
“But this one has a little more meaning.
Tim Tzyu has been able to concentrate on the unique challenge that Sebastian Fundora is. ((Liver: Premier Boxing Champions/Ryan Hafey))
“The fact that what is about to be written in the past, the history and the newest chapter that is written.
“It’s a large part of my life.”
Tzyu naturally talks about his coming trip to Las Vegas, when he will meet Sebastian Fundora (22-1-1) for the second time in his career, at the MGM Grand.
Tzyu’s last trip to Vegas did not go to plan.
Now he has to do well.
The loss of his WBO Super Welterweight title, a defeat that is paid in abundant amounts of blood, is in the past.
Tim Tzyu was cut heavily against Sebastian Fundora. ((Getty Images: Anadolu/Tayfun Coskun))
“What could have been? Who knows. I don’t look at it, I really just concentrate on the present,” says Tzyu.
“The first was a hell of a spectacle and a fight to be remembered for the centuries.
“That is why we come back Gunna and experience the memory.”
The massacre of the T-Mobile Arena saw Fundora add the WBO belt of Tzyu to its WBC crown.
For those who have to remind, the towering American and a late call opened to fight Tzyu for a notification of only 11 days-a sickness cut in the head of Tszyu in just the second round of what was changed in a 12-round epic 16 months ago.
In recent weeks, Fundora has argued that the reduction had little impact on Tzyu and that the Australian could see him well for the rest of the game that the American won by a desperate scary, split decision.
The proof of everyone who saw the fight would suggest that Tzyu is right in calling that claim as “bulls ***”.
Tim Tzyu does not look back, only ahead and is ready to silence the doubters. ((Getty Images: Darrian Traynor))
Nevertheless, Tzyu says that, despite losing his world title to Fundora, he was still able to take enough.
“The fact that I was able to show my true self, and who I am as a person, with my heart, my determination, the values I bought with, I have to show it to an audience for the whole world to see,” Tzyu says.
“That’s what I’m about.
“I think that in life every lesson you learn is of hard failures, of hard situations that help you grow as a person.
“Unfortunately, that cut losing me, but it turned me into a different person.”
There was much less to take from his next trip to America.
There is no way to mitigate what IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev inflicted in Florida in Florida last October last October.
Tim Tzyu was brutally brutalized last year by Bakhram Murtazaliev in Orlando. ((Getty Images: Alex Menendez))
It was a wild beat, the Aussie was knocked down three times in the second round and once in round three before the towel was thrown in.
If the Fundora loss left physical scars, the Murtazaliev sample has exposed a few mental, as well as adding a few for a good measure.
It was a brutalization that few or no saws.
But Tzyu put Tzyu back on the path to correct those mistakes.
While Tzyu had 11 days to adapt to the challenge of 197 cm-long Fundora instead of the 171 cm long Keith Thurman, this time he directed all his spruce on long, lanky left left.
If he was caught last time, he will not be this time.
“The height, that’s all he really has on me,” says Tzyu.
“Never kick the little man.”
Tim Tszyu has bad the victory he earned in Newcastle. ((Getty Images: Roni Bintang))
Fundora has only fought once since the beating of Tzyu and becoming a uniform champion at 153 pounds, with Chordale Booker from TKO defeated after a one -sided four rounds in Las Vegas in March.
Tzyu says that he is not obsessed with defeating Fundora, but accepts the challenge of being ahead of him is what drives him forward.
“I believe that everyone in life needs a challenge, a goal to work towards,” he says.
“I don’t stay awake at night and have Sebastian Fundora in my mind. It’s not.
“I know where I am in and I know what I can do in the ring, so I don’t have to think about it. I just think about it from week after week, day after day and just get the best version [of myself]. “
Fighting on the map will also be box legend Manny Pacquiao, the 46-year-old eightweight world champion who returns to the Ring for the first time since 2021 to combat Mario Barrios for the WBC Welterweight title.
The addition of Pacquiao to the map as a headliner has let ticket sales go “crazy”, according to Tzyu.
But the added global interest is not discouraging him.
“The platform where I am now is crazy,” says Tzyu.
“The audience is so big, so the fact is that I don’t have to win alone, but wins on dominant fashion and everyone has to prove exactly who I really am.”
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