Tim Tszyu: record, next fight and profile →
Tim Tszyu has vowed to "keep going" after his shocking three-round loss to Bakhram Murtazaliev on Saturday night. Dropped four times and never in a bout he was expected to win, Tszyu has now lost two fights in a row and his future is uncertain.
For Serhii Bohachuk, 2024 has been a year of figuratively rolling with the punches. Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) was supposed to fight Sebastian Fundora for the vacant WBC junior middleweight world title in March on the undercard of Tim Tszyu vs. Keith Thurman. But when Thurman got hurt, Fundora stepped in — and suddenly the main event was for both Tszyu’s WBO title and the WBC title. Bohachuk instead defeated Brian Mendoza for the interim WBC belt.
Bakhram Murtazaliev is hoping to form a bond with Tim Tszyu which he believes will help both fighters grow.
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.
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 fight to Las Vegas, such were concerns surrounding the coming storm.
All of the goodwill Tim Tszyu has both earned and attracted with his fighting heart and spirit in his career will likely count for little today
Keith Thurman believes Bakhram Murtazaliev has done enough to merit a chance with the big names at junior middleweight.
Kostya Tszyu retired from boxing as one of the finest of all junior welterweights when, in 2005, he lost to Ricky Hatton in one of the fights of the year, since when so little of him has been seen. On Saturday, at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, for the first time in eight years he attended a fight involving his son Tim, who was stopped by the IBF junior-middleweight Bakhram Murtazaliev. On the eve of Murtazaliev-Tszyu, the 55-year-old Russian-Australian Kostya spoke to BoxingScene.
Tim Tszyu and those around him had been sufficiently confident of victory over Bakhram Murtazaliev that he had planned to make his first defense of the IBF junior-middleweight title back home in Sydney between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.
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.