Tim Tszyu’s training and management team receives a lot of criticism from fans and the media about his seventh round loss of the WBC Junior Middleweight Champion last Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Fundora rematch blame
The decision of his management to rush to the Rematch with the 6’5 ″ Fundora is guessed after the disaster of this past weekend. Tim’s training team is under fire due to the lack of improvement in his game. He looked like the same fighter he lost to Fundora in 2024.
“If they stopped the battle in the second or third round, Tim’s career might have gone in a different direction,” Chris Mannix says on his channel About Tim Tszyu’s first fight against Sebastian Fundora in 2024 when he was cut badly in round two. “He wouldn’t have to fight Bakhram Murtazaliev for a world title.”
Tszyu’s training team was perhaps worried about his reaction if they pulled him out after contracting his cuts in the Fundora match. It is understandable that they would be reluctant to stop the competition if they were worried about facing his anger afterwards and possibly be fired. He had not lost to anyone until that point in his career, and they might have thought that he would sooner or later come to Sebastian with his punching force.
“He goes back and beats Joey Spencer, and his team thinks he’s ready for a re -broadcast with Fundora. He needed at least two fights, maybe three to get a second time at the level of skills and confidence to fight Fundora. Have you seen anything other than Tim Tszyu? The main movements did not do there.
You can’t blame Tszyu that you’ve got the second battle with Fundora in the way. The money that Tszyu received for the re -broadcast with Fundora was probably too tempting for him not to fight against him a second time. If Tim chose to wait, the fight may not have been there for him. With Fundora entering Harvard, he won’t be able to stay on top for much longer, given the time obligations associated with it.
“They have put their fighter in involuntary situations over the past year. If Tim Tszyu wants to keep up, he has to renovate everything. He has to clean up,” says Mannix.
Tszyu Career rebuild
- Dump the whole training team
- Moving to the US to practice with talented fighters in a gym.
- Spar with the quality guys. Do not use the same person.
- Move down to 147. Tszyu does not have the talent to win a world title in the Deep 154 lb section. There are too many good fighters in this weight class. Even if it drains Tim, he must fight against welter weight. This is his only chance to become a world champion again.
An obvious step for Tszyu would be to replace the entire training team from top to bottom. Turn off everyone and replace it with a proven coach and a team winners.
’30 years and shot up? They put him against a 6’6 ″ Southpaw and then submitted him with this unbeaten, running Russian (IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev) and then gave him a Gimme (Joey) Spencer to get his confidence back, “Sergio Mora said about the match.
Tszyu can still be Redd. He was linked to two fighters who were all wrong for him, and would have beaten him at any stage of his career. His management must be more selective in the fighters they choose.
Avoid dangerous fighters
The division of 154 pounds is a minefield of dangerous fighters It would probably do the same to Tszyu what Murtazaliev and Fundora did. Tszyu is a good fighter, but more of a contender than a fighter on championship. Tim must move to welter weight because he will never win another world title on the middleweight. There are too many excellent fighters in the section that is younger and have an excellent skill for him.
What boxing fans may not remember is that Tszyu was raised to WBO champion in 2023, rather than winning it in the ring. If he had to fight one of the leading names at junior middleweight, he probably would never have won the WBO title.
Fighters tszyu should avoid permanently
– Vergil Ortiz Jr.
– Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis
– Yoenis Tellez
– Israil Madrimov
– Erickson’s Lubi
– Sebastian Fundora
– Bakhram Murtazaliev
– Serhii Bohachuk
– Jorge Garcia Perez
– Xander Zayas
– Charles Conwell
“Then they put him in there again with a ‘tower inferno’ (fundora). It was a career that was so immediately laid down that it had so much potential to make life -changing money. One or two bad decisions ruined the child’s career, ‘says Mora.
Initially, Tszyu management team believed he would handle fundora as he did other fighters when he was brought in as a late replacement in 2024 after Keith Thurman was injured. Tim looked unbeatable up to that point. Fundora was recently struck by Brian Mendoza, one of the former Tszyu wins.
Last updated on 07/22/2025
