LIVE: Elder Tszyu slams brother's opponent

Tim Tszyu took took contented with his brother's hostile Darkon Dryden up of Saturday night's boxing festival that volition spot 20 fights instrumentality spot successful 10 hours successful Newcastle.

Speaking astatine Friday's weigh-in Tszyu - who is preparing for a world-title combat against Jermell Charlo successful Las Vegas successful January - said Dryden, who works arsenic a carpenter, was "disrespectful" for saying the six-round bout volition extremity with Nikita "falling successful five".

"Of people you're going to person assurance similar that erstwhile you've fought [people] with ... 2 wins and 30 losses," Tszyu said, taking a changeable astatine the Newcastle fighter's 4-0 record.

"But erstwhile you've got idiosyncratic who has grown up successful the amateurs, done boxing his full beingness ... [to accidental it volition end] wrong 5 rounds, that's disrespectful."

Tszyu besides pointed retired that Dryden was quiescent astatine the weigh-in and didn't talk to media aft suggesting Nikita was struggling to marque weight.

"He's astir apt hungry," Tszyu said Dryden's quiescent exit.

"I heard him saying worldly yesterday astir Nikita's weight, but I deliberation that's a mode of saying you're the 1 with the problem.

"He looks drained by the look and his tummy looks similar it's truly sucked in."