LIVE: Tszyu rips 'delusional' rival out for revenge

Aussie Liam Wilson's combat against Argentina's Carlos Alanis is tonight's co-main event.

Referee Chris Flores granted Navarrete a scandalous 27 seconds to retrieve from a knockdown successful the 4th round, with Wilson subsequently claiming that the combat organisers were "out to get him".

The Queenslander missed a close jab but past followed it up with a beardown left-right operation that sent Navarrete to the canvas and looked similar it whitethorn person ended the fight.

The Mexican got to his feet, earlier spitting retired his mouthguard to bargain much time. Wilson said Flores gave him adjacent much clip erstwhile helium enactment his mouthguard successful upside down.

Navarrete past rallied to triumph the combat by TKO successful the ninth round.

Despite the heartache of having his world-title imagination snatched away, Tim Tszyu has tipped the promising 27-year-old to beryllium Australia's adjacent satellite champion. 

"For definite helium tin triumph a satellite title," Tszyu said.

"He was expected to triumph against Navarrete successful my eyes … Liam has each the skills."

Last week, Wilson called retired erstwhile lightweight unified satellite champion and chap Australian George Kambosos, to which Tszyu said would bask watching Wilson measurement up a part to put an all-Australian ace fight.

"It's a cracking fight, it would beryllium a large Aussie fight," Tszyu said.

"I deliberation George is chasing different things astatine the moment, that's lone my opinion, but a combat similar that successful the aboriginal (against Wilson) would beryllium a large fight."

Nikita Tszyu has formed uncertainty implicit whether Jack Brubaker volition beryllium capable to lucifer his powerfulness successful the ringing astatine the Hordern Pavilion tonight.

Tszyu has brutally knocked retired 5 of his six opponents to date, and has developed a estimation arsenic a ruthless dense hitter with a slayer instinct.

It was 4 years agone erstwhile Brubaker (17-4-2) copped punishment from Tszyu's (6-0-0) older member Tim - soon to beryllium crowned the WBO ace welterweight satellite champion - over 4 rounds earlier his country threw the towel in.

"My manager Glen Jennings was adjacent telling maine contiguous however aft that fight, Jack came into the dressing country and said 'f--- I don't privation to combat astatine ace welterweight anymore, these guys deed excessively hard'," Nikita Tszyu claimed to Fox Sports Australia up of this week's fight.

"That's what helium said; that Tim deed excessively hard. So what's present bringing him backmost to the division? Maybe he's delusional. Or possibly helium forgot astir what helium said."

When quizzed connected that allegation, Brubaker admitted it was true.

"Yeah, that's precisely however it went. Tim deed maine with everything barroom the room descend that night," helium said.

"He was an exceptional combatant past and has lone gotten amended since.

"But it was besides 4 years ago. Back erstwhile I could inactive marque welterweight comfortably. But I'm bigger now. Stronger. I'm present a hard punching, ace welterweight myself."