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By Keith Idec - Tony Harrison’s resume is undeniably better than Carlos Ocampo’s. Detroit’s Harrison is a former WBC super welterweight champion and the only fighter to defeat Jermell Charlo, who has been boxing’s undisputed 154-pound champion over the past 13 months. Tim Tszyu respects Harrison and his
Tony Harrison was eager to run things back with Jermell Charlo. But with the Detroit native coming off a split-decision draw against Bryant Perrella, he was forced to head to the back of the line. Although he would eventually bounce back from his lackluster showing, scoring a lopsided victory vs. Sergio Garcia, Tim Tszyu had first dibs on Charlo’s undisputed throne.
Despite being an unknown commodity stateside, Tim Tszyu had successfully worked his way from the ground up. His reward? A showdown against current undisputed junior middleweight kingpin, Jermell Charlo.
In order to avoid any offense, his muthaf------ name was stated right off the top in the title. Given the performance Jr. middleweight Tim Tszyu had on Saturday, respecting his most adamant of post-fight wishes seemed only fair.
Jermell Charlo doesn’t think Tim Tszyu stopped the same version of Tony Harrison that he knocked out three years ago. Charlo contended during Showtime’s coverage of Tszyu-Harrison that the outcome of their rematch ruined Harrison. Tszyu dropped and stopped Harrison in the ninth round Sunday afternoon at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia, Tszyu’s hometown.
Popular undefeated hometown favorite Tim Tszyu dominated former world champion Tony Harrison with a ninth-round TKO to win the Interim WBO super welterweight title Sunday, before 11,740 rabid pro-Tszyu fans at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia.
Tony Harrison encountered a different Tim Tszyu than the contender he studied on film. Harrison acknowledged after his ninth-round technical knockout loss to Tszyu on Sunday afternoon that the unbeaten Australian was better than he expected in their fight for the WBO interim junior middleweight title. The former WBC
Tim Tszyu believes he delivered a message to Jermell Charlo by dropping and stopping the only opponent who has beaten Charlo. Tszyu looked directly into the camera and expressed his intentions to the undisputed 154-pound champion after he beat Tony Harrison by ninth-round technical knockout Sunday afternoon in Sydney, Australia.
Tszyu, Harrison Fight Photos Gallery - Popular undefeated hometown favorite Tim Tszyu dominated former world champion Tony Harrison with a ninth-round TKO to win the Interim WBO Super Welterweight title Sunday in a SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL main event live on SHOWTIME before 11,740 rabid pro-Tszyu fans at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia.
Tim Tszyu made good on his pre-fight prediction that he would finish Tony Harrison in the ninth round by landing 45% of his power shots punches. After three rounds, Tszyu had landed 21 power punches to Harrison’s 5.