Even if you are not present in the live audience, you can still experience the powerful thud of punches landing on Tim Tszyu's opponents. The impact travels through broadcast technology, the sound of leather meeting flesh with incredible force and speed, causing concussions, inflicting damage, showing no mercy. The reverberation of these punches can be heard clearly even thousands of miles away from the boxing ring. Those who witness and hear these punches are left with no doubt that junior middleweight Tim Tszyu himself is a force to be reckoned with. However, this Saturday in Las Vegas, the undefeated Aussie fighter, son of boxing royalty with a record of 24-0, might just meet his match in another formidable opponent.
Boxing Showdown in Las Vegas
For Tszyu, the son of Hall of Famer Koysta Tszyu, will be taking on the towering 6.5 feet tall, 20-1-1 Sebastian Fundora in the main event of Amazon Prime Video’s first Pat Per View Card this Saturday night in Las Vegas. The 29 year old Tszyu was supposed to take on the popular – if not particularly active – former welterweight titlist Keith Thurman this weekend, but a Thurman injury meant the 26 year old Fundora would now face Tszyu instead – with a roughly eight inch height advantage at his disposal. Not that Tszyu appears to be unnerved. He’s an icy customer, Tszyu, a man confident in his ability to physically vanquish an opponent.
“I know what to do wit southpaws,” he told Sporting News Australia about facing tall southpaw Fundora. “I know how to fight tall guys anyways. It’s all about adjusting and I feel the adjustments have been made.” And how long did it take to successfully make those adjustments? “One day?” he asked almost rhetorically. “Two hours? Yeah, it was one session.” When asked what he intends to do on Saturday, Tszyu’s words become menacing. “Hurt him,” he said. “Hurt him. Bad.” To the undefeated Tszyu, it’s all as simple as that. “That’s the plan, man,” he said. “Someone in the crowd’s going to catch a head flying.”
Sebastian Fundora may well agree…except on whose head it may be soaring outside the ring. Like Tszyu, Fundora’s taken this fight on short notice. Both men are heading into uncharted territory here. Indeed, many – if not most – feel like Fundora poses a greater threat to Tszyu than Thurman did. With the WBC and WBO junior middleweight titles at stake, there’s a lot on the line for each fighter this weekend. Among the many things that could be said about this matchup, “uninteresting” isn’t one of them.
