Tim Tszyu is looking beyond his fight against IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev this Saturday toward a higher prize for big money against Canelo Alvarez in 2025. Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) isn’t letting his recent loss to Sebastian Fundora stop him from dreaming big.
Tszyu lacks the appeal to get picked by Canelo because a fight between them won’t sell on PPV. He’s well known to the U.S. public. The fans who know him saw him getting beaten up by Fundora.
If Tszyu becomes one of the many fighters chasing a bag against Canelo, it could signal that he’s having doubts about his career viability. He looked terrible in his 12-round split decision loss to Fundora on March 30th and could be starting to look for an exit strategy like Terence Crawford is.
Tszyu believes his fighting style would work against the unified three-belt super middleweight champion Canelo. He’s not talking about moving up to weight classes and…
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