Fresh details revealed for Tszyu blockbuster

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Tim Tszyu's satellite rubric situation against unified ace welterweight satellite champion Jermell Charlo volition instrumentality place astatine Michelob ULTRA Arena astatine Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino successful Las Vegas.

Showtime revealed the 12,000 capableness venue volition big the highly anticipated unification bout erstwhile Tsyzu tries to portion the Texan for his IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO belts connected January 29 (AEDT).

The accidental gives the undefeated Tszyu a accidental to marque his ain people astatine the venue aft his father, Kostya, fought doubly astatine Mandalay Bay. Kostya defeated American Sharmba Mitchell successful 2001 to unify the light-welterweight division.

He past defended his undisputed titles against Ghana's Ben Tackie successful 2002, his lone bout that year.

The blockbuster volition instrumentality spot connected the 28th day of Tim's begetter Kostya Tszyu's IBF lightweight rubric triumph implicit Jake Rodriguez astatine neighbouring casino, MGM Grand, successful 1995.

Tim, 28, has gone each successful with his preparation, which began with a mountainous training campy successful Thailand. He's presently successful Los Angeles, earlier basing himself extracurricular of the Las Vegas portion weeks retired from the fight.

"The basal I decidedly built, I consciousness overmuch stronger. My fitness, my state vessel is overmuch bigger," Tszyu said.

"The main happening is I get excited and I conscionable privation to spell hard, hard, hard but you've got to beryllium astute successful this business.

"The happening is we're truthful acold distant but truthful adjacent arsenic good (to the fight). So the main happening for maine is to conscionable beryllium capable to not pain out."

While successful Los Angeles, Tszyu volition instrumentality successful immoderate NFL action astatine SoFi Stadium to ticker the LA Rams play the Las Vegas Raiders connected Friday (AEDT).

As for Charlo's deficiency of promotion of the combat isolated from declaring connected societal media he'll halt Tszyu early, the Australian said helium expects a antithetic quality person to the bout.

"He'll cognize erstwhile to hype it up. He'll know. He knows I'm here," Tszyu said.

"So I conjecture we'll person a property league soon and that's erstwhile we'll person our archetypal oculus to eye."

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