Tim Tszyu (21-0, 15 KOs) can be taking an enormous danger dealing with Tony Harrison for the WBO interim junior middleweight title on Sunday, March twelfth, in Australia. The winner will face four-belt 154-lb champion Jermell Charlo, who’s briefly out of fee nursing a left hand damage.
Tszyu, 28, is keen to danger his title shot towards the injured Charlo by taking over the well-seasoned ‘Tremendous Dangerous’ Harrison in a struggle that many boxing followers anticipate him to lose.
Harrison would really like nothing higher than to defeat Tszyu in entrance of his personal followers in Australia to win the interim WBO belt after which face his nemesis Jermell in a trilogy.
The very best shot Harrison has of profitable this struggle is that if he can begin out quick and get to Tszyu with one in all his large photographs. The longer the struggle goes, the higher the possibility that Tszyu stops a tired-out Harrison late.
The Detroit native Harrison already owns a victory over Charlo in December 2018, beating him by a 12 spherical unanimous resolution. Harrison outboxed Charlo, profiting from his unhealthy behavior of loading up on each shot, hoping to attain a knockout.
Of their rematch a yr later in 2019, Jermell rallied late to cease Harrison within the eleventh. Harrison was giving Charlo one other boxing lesson up till getting caught with a giant shot and brought out.
“Each struggle you’re taking is all on the road; you’re one punch away from going again to the very backside,” mentioned Tim Tszyu. “It’s all on the road and a bet, however that is what I do. That is boxing, it’s a part of my profession, and I’m a fighter first.”
“He [former WBC junior middleweight champion Tony Harrison] was the subsequent finest obtainable choice. I’m at that stage of my profession the place I actually don’t care who’s in entrance of me. I’m able to take all of them out.”
Tszyu might want to struggle quite a bit higher than he did in his final struggle towards Terrell Gausha final March for him to beat a man like Harrison.
Gausha decked Tszyu within the first spherical, and gave him large issues by the primary seven rounds earlier than gassing out within the final 5 rounds to lose an in depth resolution.
Harrison’s historical past of stamina and a weak chin will give Tszyu a very good shot of sporting him down late and scoring a knockout, nevertheless it gained’t be a stroll within the park.
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