Veiled swipe at Nikita Tszyu over amateur claims

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When Ben Bommber takes connected Nikita Tszyu adjacent Wednesday astatine Margaret Court Arena, the rising Victorian super-welterweight volition person respected US trainer Rodney Crisler successful his corner.

Crisler, who besides works with undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney, volition decorativeness up his duties arsenic 1 of the caput trainers of Team Haney aft the American's rubric defence against Vasily Lomachenko connected Sunday (AEST) earlier making the travel from Las Vegas to Melbourne.

"He's getting connected the level the adjacent day. He's not celebrating with Haney oregon anything," Bommber told Wide World of Sports.

"It's a large sacrifice. I truly admit it from him. he's beauteous overmuch doing 40 hours of flying wrong a mates of days. I'm grateful and we're going to enactment connected a helluva fight."

Bommber, 21, and 5-0 (4-0) arsenic a professional, struck up a narration with Crisler during 1 of the Aussie's galore trips to Las Vegas wherever helium spent a ample chunk of his clip astatine the famed Mayweather Boxing Club.

Benjamin Bommber (R) lands a punch connected Scott Kelly. (Getty)

"Me and Rodney get on great and much importantly our styles of warring they lucifer up well," helium said. "He's been capable to springiness maine each these small tips and influences connected however to amended my crippled and we some spot the aforesaid things."

It's those tips and influences that squad Bommber judge should person Tszyu, 25, worried. Bommber is easy the toughest trial of the younger Tszyu's career, arsenic helium takes connected his 5th undefeated hostile successful his sixth nonrecreational bout.

Tszyu (5-0, 4KO) returns to enactment aft his ascendant fourth-round TKO implicit Bo Belbin connected the undercard of member Tim Tszyu's palmy interim satellite rubric bout successful March.

While Tim is 1 combat distant from yet taking connected Jermell Charlo, Nikita is dilatory gathering his resume and with the aforesaid cautious absorption has the tools to besides beryllium a unit successful the part 1 day.

Once upon a clip that was not the program for Nikita, who near a reported palmy amateur vocation down to instrumentality up architectural studies astatine university, earlier getting backmost successful the ringing arsenic a professional.

"I ne'er heard of Nikita oregon his amateur vocation until they announced his pro debut, they said helium had a large amateur background," Bommber said.

Bo Belbin (l) is punched by Nikita Tszyu (r) during their ace welterweight bout. (Getty)

"If helium truly loved the athletics and this is thing you wanted to bash your full beingness you don't instrumentality the 3 oregon 4 of the astir important years of improvement conscionable to spell study.

"We don't person a backmost up plan, this is each we've known. This is each we've wanted to do, we're 100 per cent successful connected this, we don't person a large squad oregon a large sanction to autumn backmost on. None of that. We're each in.

"We judge successful our process, we spot god. We had to visualise this erstwhile nary 1 other seen it. There was nary 1 successful the household to accidental 'Do it this way' due to the fact that he's done it before.

"Nikita had to spot his member bash it and past possibly I tin bash it. He's making bully money. He astir apt saw determination was an accidental to commencement making money."

Bommber said his clip successful the gyms of Las Vegas sparring each sorts of fighters with antithetic styles has hardened his resoluteness and built up his confidence. The Victorian said the gyms successful the mecca of boxing are wholly antithetic to the ones backmost home, investigating fighters connected each level, particularly mentally.

But Bommber says the antithetic looks he's been fixed successful sparring successful the world's combat superior gives him assurance erstwhile assessing Tszyu's style.

"I don't spot nary slick defence. No beardown jab. I conscionable spot a feline that comes guardant and tin punch," helium said.

"I deliberation this combat is going to beryllium antithetic due to the fact that he's going against idiosyncratic who is going to dictate"

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