Cocky opponent's harsh take on 'basic' Tszyu

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Tim Tszyu and Tony Harrison.

Tim Tszyu's upcoming hostile Tony Harrison has dismissed the Aussie slugger up of their combat for the WBO ace welterweight rubric successful Melbourne successful March.

In his archetypal combat connected location ungraded since 2021, Tszyu volition beryllium vying for a maiden satellite title.

Tszyu was scheduled to conflict undisputed ace welterweight champion Jermell Charlo successful Las Vegas past Sunday - with each 4 belts connected the line.

However, the fight was postponed aft Charlo broke his near manus successful training.

In the lack of Charlo, Tszyu said Harrison was his champion stake for a high-profile fight.

Speaking connected Brian Custer's The Last Stand podcast, Harrison said helium does not spot thing peculiar astir Tszyu, and claims helium volition dispose of him to acceptable up a 3rd combat against Charlo.

Harrison is the lone combatant to person defeated Charlo - getting the champion of him successful their archetypal rubric combat successful December 2019 by a controversial, but unanimous, decision.

However, a twelvemonth later, Charlo settled the people with an 11th-round TKO triumph implicit Harrison.

"[When Charlo wounded his hand] I felt similar I mislaid thing that belonged to me, and my full roadworthy to get what I mislaid back," Harrison said of contesting a trilogy with Charlo.

"For maine to get the combat with Tim Tszyu, I'm similar damn, he's already No.1 (contender), he's already adjacent up, if I skip the enactment and conscionable spell and combat a feline similar that - it conscionable made cleanable consciousness for me."

Harrison defeated Sergio Garcia by a 10-round unanimous determination past April.

He claimed his combat with Tszyu would play retired successful the aforesaid fashion.

"My past combat was conscionable mentation for the aforesaid benignant of feline I'm facing," helium said.

"Tim is simply a precise pugnacious combatant but he's conscionable truthful basal to me.

"He's idiosyncratic I spot astir the block, he's similar idiosyncratic astatine the parkland erstwhile I'm warring idiosyncratic astatine the park. There's thing peculiar astir him. His defence is not stellar, his offence ain't stellar. He's conscionable a precise pugnacious competitor.

"Everybody ain't blessed with power, and too the power, there's thing other that I don't have. I conscionable consciousness similar I'm gonna out-will him, out-skill him, I'm gonna person amusive successful there. I don't truly spot excessively galore ways helium tin bushed me, to beryllium honest."

Harrison believes a triumph implicit Tsyzu volition shore up a 3rd and last combat with Charlo - allowing him to perchance decorativeness his boxing vocation connected top.

"They got maine going against 1 of the apical guys, 1 of the champion radical successful the world. I'm like, 'What amended mode to amusement I'm the champion combatant successful the world'. And then, not lone that, I get the lone feline I've been chasing erstwhile I triumph this fight," helium said.

"I lone privation 1 guy, and I'm done. I lone privation 1 feline and I'm retired of it, I'm going into the rafters aft that."

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