Comments Thread For: Warrior Tim Tszyu Declares the Show Goes on After Gory Sebastian Fundora Battle

[JJ75JJ]

Now I feel bad. Timmy was talking more junk than a used car salesman before. Now he's been humbled, and pity party is on.

What junk was he talking?

[JJ75JJ]

this is soooooo refreshing to hear - I hope young boxers in the gyms now will pay attention

I'm sure they will - but how they view his 'take' will depend on how his career goes from here. If he is sidelined for 2/3 years and comes back at 32 years old post prime (when he is peak prime now) then those young boxers in the gyms will rightly conclude that protecting the '0' is the path to follow

I think the way he lost the 0 is what matters, he wasn't beaten by the better fighter he was beaten by an accidental cut above his eye. The biggest issue with the loss is now he has no belts so no one has any reason to fight him, why would they fight a warrior like him for nothing?

[Atypicalbrit]

He isn't exactly a P4P star in the making or anything, but the good thing for Tszyu is that because he's Australian and not American, he can continue on and will likely get another belt back soon. From my personal observation, those outside America don't have the ******ed "thou holy zero-ness" religious followers where the soft coddled "0" is somehow valued over anything else in the world.

Tszyu will be able to get paydays in Australia at any point in the next 15 years. He can lose his next 5 fights in a row and the Australians will still pack 60,000 into a stadium to see him face a returning Anthony Mundine.

I think he will have a decent career though, he's pretty good. Not P4P as you say, he's a bit of a flat track bully, nowhere near as refined as his father.

Still he's the best current second generation boxer by a distance imo, and solid world level.

[Elheath]

He isn't exactly a P4P star in the making or anything, but the good thing for Tszyu is that because he's Australian and not American, he can continue on and will likely get another belt back soon. From my personal observation, those outside America don't have the ******ed "thou holy zero-ness" religious followers where the soft coddled "0" is somehow valued over anything else in the world.

[1Eriugenus]

Fundura is ridiculously tall for a light-mddeweight with long, long arms which he was trying to position to defend himself. I didn't think it was a deliberate elbow & Tim & his corner never sought to claim it was.

[CineScape]

Not sure why everyone is gassing up this “Errol Spence is more commercially viable than Crawford” narrative. That may have been the case before Spence walked into the ring looking like a zombie and took a one-sided beating from Crawford - one that clearly exposed Spence’s limitations as a fighter. It ain’t necessarily the case now. Plus, judging by how bloated and bleary eyed Spence looked when he got in the ring after the Fundora-Tszyu fight, it’s going to be months before he’s anywhere close to being at the junior middle weight. On another note, Fundora should take a reality check: He won a split decision against a guy who couldn’t see out of one eye for 10 rounds after being blatantly elbowed.

I was with you up until you stated he was BLATANTLY elbowed. I CAN'T STAND Fundora, but in no way, shape or form was Tszyu elbowed intentionally.
Make it make sense.....

[1Eriugenus]

Didn't think Spence looked bloated or bleary-eyed at all.

[1Eriugenus]

Roadblock, you're probably right that you could use superglue but is that legal? Most cut men aren't like Panama Lewis, they will not use banned substances. Also, Tim has had a great gouge taken out of his scalp. I would assume he will want it cosmetically repaired at some point & I doubt superglue will help that.

[Slip jab]

I realize I am preaching to the choir here, I truly do... But just imagine if Amazon and PBC had not put this behind a pay-per-view wall. Imagine up to 3 times as many eyeballs watching this card. Imagine the the return on investment going forward. What a fight, and it seemed like a solid card with good efforts all the way through. I think PBC on Amazon would have been the talk of the town, even with the NCAA going full tilt. Instead, only a handful of people saw it and only us fans respect it. Missed opportunity.

You’re correct, I think putting a price tag on this was a mistake in the first place with Thurman. I didn’t even buy and still watched afterwards .but I did get the app I’m just not paying extra when I can watch later. ESPN has better content

[Roj]

Not sure why everyone is gassing up this “Errol Spence is more commercially viable than Crawford” narrative. That may have been the case before Spence walked into the ring looking like a zombie and took a one-sided beating from Crawford - one that clearly exposed Spence’s limitations as a fighter. It ain’t necessarily the case now. Plus, judging by how bloated and bleary eyed Spence looked when he got in the ring after the Fundora-Tszyu fight, it’s going to be months before he’s anywhere close to being at the junior middle weight. On another note, Fundora should take a reality check: He won a split decision against a guy who couldn’t see out of one eye for 10 rounds after being blatantly elbowed.