{"id":231246,"date":"2025-07-02T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231246\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:59:10","slug":"tim-tszyu-believes-fundora-rematch-on-july-19th-will-be-whole-different-fight-without-early-cut-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231246\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu Believes Fundora Rematch On July 19th Will Be “Whole Different Fight” Without Early Cut Disadvantage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu believes his rematch with WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora on July 19th will be a much different fight because he won\u2019t be at a disadvantage from an early cut. If Tszyu loses the rematch, he\u2019ll have to confront the truth that he\u2019s not good enough.<\/p>\n

The former WBO 154-lb champion Tszyu (25-2, 14 KOs) is getting a rematch with Fundora (22-1-1, 14 KOs) despite having a 1-2 record in his last three fights. It\u2019s not an ideal record for a challenger to have, but Tszyu remains popular in his native Australia.<\/p>\n

Amazon Prime<\/a> Video PPV Fight<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019ll be fighting on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Mario Barrios at the\u00a0Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be shown on Amazon Prime<\/a> Video PPV.<\/p>\n

Tszyu\u2019s Cut: Was It to Blame?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe disadvantage that I had, it was much easier the first time. The second time, it\u2019s going to be a whole different fight,\u201d said Tim Tszyu to Fighthype<\/a> about his rematch against Sebastian Fundora on July 19th.<\/p>\n

It would be a mistake for Tszyu to put the entire blame on his loss to the cut he sustained in the second round from an elbow from Fundora. Tszyu was getting hit a lot well before the cut occurred, and you could tell that it was going to be a long night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be multiple game plans on both sites, and they\u2019ll have to be adapted. I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s going to bring out first, but I\u2019m not really focused on that. He\u2019s going to have to deal with what I have to show,\u201d said Tszyu about his fight with Fundora.<\/p>\n

Tszyu doesn\u2019t have the reach to box Fundora, and he can\u2019t match Fundora\u2019s high punch output. Tim\u2019s only path to victory would be for him to knock him out, and he\u2019s going to get hit a lot while trying. Tszyu can\u2019t count on Fundora shelling up against the ropes like his last opponent, Joseph Spencer, did.<\/p>\n

Tszyu: Systematically Breaking Down Opponents?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m able to systematically break someone down<\/strong> and be patient with it. There\u2019s a wide range of things you can do against an opponent like that. You\u2019ve got to be able to do it from round one, and slowly bring up the pace,\u201d said Tszyu.<\/p>\n

What Tszyu says about \u201csystematically\u201d breaking down an opponent sounds good, but his recent victory against Joseph Spencer was against a low-level opponent. It\u2019s easy to come across sounding like an expert when fighting that level of fighters.<\/p>\n

Tszyu failed miserably in his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Muratazaliev last October, and he struggled in his loss to Fundora last year. If he were capable of breaking down an opponent, why didn\u2019t he do that against Bakhram and Fundora?<\/p>\n

Tszyu looked lost in both of those fights, and he had no answers in his ability to adapt. It was much worse in his loss to Murtazaliev. He kept charging straight into his punches and dropped repeatedly.<\/p>\n

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