Tszyu rips 'cat' rival as epic Aussie title fight revealed

Tim Tszyu has announced helium volition combat American champ Brian Mendoza to instrumentality a ascendant presumption successful the super-welterweight part successful October.

The Australian boxing superstar volition adjacent period go the WBO satellite ace welterweight holder, aft the organisation ordered Jermell Charlo to relinquish the title.

Charlo was expected to combat Tszyu (23-0-0) successful January earlier the American broke his manus successful training. The Aussie has since easy accounted for Tony Harrison and Carlos Ocampo, portion Charlo has been sitting idle.

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Charlo has organised a combat with Canelo Alvarez successful a antithetic value division, leaving Tszyu the WBO champ and Mendoza (22-2-0) the apt adjacent WBC champ.

Whoever wins the October bout volition clasp 2 of the 4 belts successful the division.

The brace volition quadrate disconnected successful Australia connected October 15 and the victor volition instrumentality some belts. A big metropolis was not revealed astatine Thursday's announcement.

"I'm expecting a warfare and I'm expecting Mendoza to trial maine much than immoderate different fighter," Tszyu said.

"He has powerfulness successful some hands and has shown helium thrives disconnected being that underdog, truthful I uncertainty coming to Australia volition fuss him but don't expect a azygous idiosyncratic to beryllium cheering for him.

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"This was the combat to beryllium made and the lone combat that had maine pumped up. Styles marque fights and it has the imaginable to beryllium a banger due to the fact that we some spell looking for the fight, person dense hands and pursuit those slayer knockouts everyone loves to replay over, and over, and implicit again.

"The roadworthy to undisputed continues, it's conscionable going to instrumentality a small longer. But spot me, the travel to get determination volition beryllium mode sweeter."

When speaking astatine his property league connected Thursday, Tszyu labelled Charlo a "cat" and conceded each hopes of warring the cocky American whitethorn beryllium over.

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Charlo volition combat Alvarez connected September 30, and Tszyu is lining up a combat with the victor of that if helium gets past Mendoza.

Tszyu, 28, said helium plans to determination up successful value erstwhile helium conquers the ace welterweight division.

The October 15 paper volition diagnostic rising Aussie ace bantamweight combatant Sam Goodman connected the undercard, though an hostile is to beryllium confirmed.