Its official....Kostya is Back and wants Zab's jaw again!

[dempseyfan]

People should not be so sure That Kostya will win so easily. I seem to remeber a nasty little uppercut Zab landed on him that had him doing a nice little backwards two step of his own.

[Linx]

Tszyu will win. Slick Southpaws are tailor made for Tszyu's style. Tszyu has KO'd every southpaw that he has ever faced.

[The Infamous]

Tszyu will win. Slick Southpaws are tailor made for Tszyu's style. Tszyu has KO'd every southpaw that he has ever faced.

Give me reasons as to how "Slick Southpaws" are tailor-made for Tszyu's style. Since when does anyone have an easy time fighting a southpaw, and a slick one at that.

[Linx]

Give me reasons as to how "Slick Southpaws" are tailor-made for Tszyu's style. Since when does anyone have an easy time fighting a southpaw, and a slick one at that.

If you look at Tszyu's overall record, he has fought 10 Southpaws overall which is a very high percentage considering he has less than 35 pro fighs and has KO'd every Southpaw he has ever faced, including Zab the first time around.

Tszyu knows how to fight Southpaws and his style is perfect for them. Why? Because his main weapon - the straight right is the perfect shot against them and he finds a way to get that in. Watch his footwork against them. His lead foot is like a compass and uses it to point in the direction the southpaw is in, thus keeping a Southpaw right in front of him, which leaves them wide open for a straight right. Watch carefully the way he slides it to adjust his position at all times against Southpaws. He has short sneaky left hook, which aways gets in because a lot of southpaws aren't expecting the right.

The way to beat Tszyu is to keep him on the back foot to neglect his power, match him in physical strenght, take his shots then return fire but if your a slick southpaw, it will be Tszyu pressuring the fight and coming forward and doing what he does best and thats stalking and walking them down. Unless Tsyzu has grown old overnight (he is 36), Tszyu eats Southpaws for breakfast.

[The Infamous]

If you look at Tszyu's overall record, he has fought 9 Southpaws overall which is a very high percentage considering he has less than 40 pro fighs and has KO'd every Southpaw he has ever faced, including Zab the first time around.

Tszyu knows how to fight Southpaws and his style is perfect for them. Why? Because his main weapon - the straight right is the perfect shot against them and he finds a way to get that in. Watch his footwork against them. His lead foot is like a compass and uses it to point in the direction the southpaw is in, thus keeping a Southpaw right in front of him, which leaves them wide open for a straight right. Watch carefully the way he slides it to adjust his position at all times against Southpaws. He has short sneaky left hook, which aways gets in because a lot of southpaws are expecting the right.

The way to beat Tszyu is to keep him on the back foot to neglect his power, match him in physical strenght, take his shots then return fire but if your a slick southpaw, it will be Tszyu pressuring the fight and coming forward and doing what he does best and thats stalking and walking them down. Unless Tsyzu has grown old overnight (he is 36), Tszyu eats Southpaws for breakfast.

OK, good post man, K for you. Thanks for clearing that up I was just unsure as to how his style was tailor-made. Good Post.

[Linx]

OK, good post man, K for you. Thanks for clearing that up I was just unsure as to how his style was tailor-made. Good Post.

No probz.

For the record, his Southpaw opponents are


Ismael Chaves TKO3

Jake Rodriguez TKO6

Corey Johnson KO4

Ned Simmons KO1

Pedro Sanchez TKO4

Robert Rivera KO1

Sharmba Mitchell 1 TKO7

Sharmba Micthell 2 TKO3

Zab Judah KO2

Hugo Pindeda TKO11


Like I said, he has faced Southpaws 10 (in only 34 overall fights) times throughout his career, and NO southpaw has lasted the distance with Tszyu. Tszyu is cold blooded a southpaw killer

[Easy-E]

Tszyu wants Zab rematch
By Grantlee Kieza
October 30, 2005

KOSTYA Tszyu will fight again next year but one of America's leading boxing agents has warned him not to face his arch foe Zab Judah without a warm-up.

Tszyu will meet members of his team this week to discuss one last multi-million-dollar hurrah and Judah, the fighter he iced in 2001, is his target.

Despite concerns from his wife Natasha and trainer Johnny Lewis that he should retire after the pounding he took in losing his IBF light-welterweight title to Ricky Hatton in June, Tszyu is pressing on with hopes of a final triumph to end a great career.

But in New York yesterday, agent Don Majeski, who set up many of Tszyu's world title fights, warned the 36-year-old former champ not to expect an easy rematch against Judah.

"Kostya should not even dream of fighting Zab without a warm-up fight first," Majeski said.

"Zab is a much better boxer now than when Kostya beat him in 2001.

"And Zab was winning their first fight until Kostya clipped him at the end of round two.

"Zab is now the world champion in the welterweight division and a much more dangerous fighter."

Majeski estimated Tszyu would receive at least $1.3million and Australian TV rights for a fight against Judah but doubted he could make anything like the $5.4 million he earned in surrendering his title to Hatton.


"If he does chase a fight with Zab it will also mean signing with Don King because Don controls Zab's career," Majeski said.

Judah says he welcomes a return fight with the man who handed him his most humiliating moment in boxing and told The Sunday Telegraph he would give him a worse beating than Hatton inflicted. "If Kostya wants to fight me again I'll knock him out this time," Judah said. "He knows he was lucky to win the first one."

(excerpt about his children removed)

Tszyu says his boxing career has been a journey of learning.

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom," he writes.

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pretty ****ed journalist by saying that Zab was beating Kostya up until the KO....Zab won the first round and stopped at that....anyway guys, what do you all think about Kostya's next fight?

what the hell is this bull****?????
zab was winning the fight???
give me a break, he won the FIRST round then got knocked the **** out
talk about bias

[NAB]

I'm glad to read this. Finally Tszyu can get what is coming to him. Zab will win within 4.

"Get what is coming to him..." What has he done that's so bad?

Oh I forgot. He made the object of your desire the perpetrator of the funniest dance in boxing history - The Chicken Dance...

[NAB]

what the hell is this bull****?????
zab was winning the fight???
give me a break, he won the FIRST round then got knocked the **** out
talk about bias

Even without the knockdown, Tszyu won the 2nd round anyway, so the fight was even.

[Easy-E]

no kidding, its not a lucky punch in the second round, maybe if zab beat him the first 8 rounds and then zoo ko'd him, i could see how thats a lucky punch, but it was in the second round, give me a break