“Tim Tszyu was on cookie cutter made for Bakram,” says Keith Thurman

Keith Thurman says Tim Tszyu proved he was a “cookie cutter” made for IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) by walking straight into his power punches in his third-round knockout on Saturday night at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Tszyu’s corner had to throw in the towel to save him in the third as he was dropped four times in the fight, and he was on “Bambi legs.

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Thurman, who worked as part of the broadcast crew for Premier Boxing Champions, noted that former WBO 154-lb champion Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) made no adjustments after being hurt and blown out of the water when he is not dropped. four times in battle.

‘One Time’ Thurman felt that Tszyu did the same thing over and over again. He tried to put himself back in the fight by fighting instead of using his jab and slowing the pace. Murtazaliev attacked him like a shark with its prey and tore him apart.

“Look what the left hook did. Bakhram clearly stated that there is nothing special about Tim Tszyu, and he was made a cookie cutter for Bakhram. Not only could they say it. They were able to prove it,” Keith Thurman said Battle hypein response to Tim Tszyu’s loss to Bakhram Murtazaliev on Saturday night.

This was the wrong type of fighter for the flat-footed Tszyu to fight aggressively against due to Murtazaliev’s two-fisted power, size and high work rate. Tszyu didn’t seem to practice being on guard for Murtazaliev’s left hook as he hit with it the entire fight.

Thurman thinks that Tszyu’s trainers should have told him to right hand to the side to block the wide left hooks that Murtazaliev was throwing. Tszyu had his hands in front of him to block his straight punches, but was wide open to Murtazaliev’s hooks.

“You can’t do the same thing over and over again. He was clearly hurt, and he tried to put himself right back into the fight instead of giving himself time and strategizing behind the jab and trying to slow the pace,” Thurman said.

Tszyu was probably embarrassed to be knocked down, and he wanted to get it back by dropping Murtazaliev or knocking him out. That player is in his hands.

“It was almost like you could see Tim shaking on the ground. It was almost as if we as a spectator could see reverberations from the punch. Everything in his body is telling his body to shut down. He stood back up, and just before his trainers threw in the towel, he was on Bambi’s legs. He couldn’t get up. He still had the audacity to come with an overhand right.

“He’s not that scared. He is not that dangerous. The year he came here and tried to prove that when you go from a small pool to a big pool, you run into a big fish,” Thurman said of Tszyu.

Obviously, Tszyu is not dangerous compared to the top fighters in the 154-lb division, who are fighting at a higher level than he is now. He’s lost two fights in a row, and it’s going to be tough for him to bounce back from this latest loss without going on a rebuild.

Tszyu can still hit hard, but he is weak defensively and will have trouble against the big punches in the 154-lb division.

Thurman sounds like he’s still hoping to get a fight against Tszyu, which isn’t happening now or ever. Old ‘One Time’ hadn’t fought in nearly three years, and he’d been out of the game too long for Tszyu to take a chance on fighting him. Thurman will likely suffer another injury and pull as he did earlier this year.