Tszyu's worrying admission ahead of title fight

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Tim Tszyu has made the startling admittance he's been "bored" with boxing for the past 2 years.

But present the occurrence is good and genuinely burning, arsenic helium jets to America to participate an aggravated two-month campy earlier warring Jermell Charlo for each the ace welterweight belts connected January 29.

The 28-year-old Aussie has won each 21 of his nonrecreational bouts to date, but this travel to the US is undoubtedly his biggest situation and could specify his full career.

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Charlo, 32, won the past of the large belts erstwhile he knocked retired Brian Castano successful May to assertion the WBO - adding it to the WBC, IBF, WBA and The Ring Magazine titles helium already laid assertion to.

Tim Tszyu (Getty)

Tszyu hasn't fought since March, erstwhile he bushed Terrell Gausha via unanimous decision successful Minneapolis - the archetypal clip helium had ventured extracurricular Australia oregon New Zealand to fight.

He says the 5 fights he's had since beating Jeff Horn successful August 2020 person simply been tune-ups portion helium waited for a changeable astatine a satellite title.

"Once I defeated Jeff Horn it benignant of became... I don't know, boring, I'd say," Tszyu told media astatine Sydney airdrome earlier flying to the US.

"I started getting bored. (But) I'm lit up close now, I'm acceptable to go.

"It's the 4 belts, it's what's connected the line, it's the glory, it's everything. This is everything I've ever worked for.

"I got to that nationalist level successful Australia, and present it's clip to instrumentality it to the adjacent level."

Jermell Charlo lands a punch connected Brian Castano successful their epic bout. (Twitter)

It's just to accidental Charlo hasn't fixed Tszyu overmuch respect successful the lead-up to this bout.

The cocky American couldn't adjacent accidental the Aussie's sanction erstwhile pressed astir the match-up pursuing his triumph implicit Castano.

"It's antithetic vigor implicit present successful America, baby. It's antithetic vigor successful America," Charlo said arsenic helium lambasted an Australian writer astatine a property conference.

"How overmuch Tim Too, immoderate his f---in' sanction is, however overmuch they got? How overmuch wealth they got? F--- you and Tim Kazoo."

Tszyu isn't acrophobic astir getting into a warfare of words, preferring to marque his connection connected the nighttime successful beforehand of a planetary assemblage - which volition beryllium the biggest he's ever fought successful beforehand of.

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"I consciousness similar I haven't achieved thing until I get these 4 belts astir my waist," helium said.

"They don't complaint us, and I'm present to daze the satellite successful spectacular fashion, and I've got each the tools to bash it.

"It's going to beryllium a large infinitesimal successful Australia's sporting history.

"After this combat there's truthful galore much things, truthful overmuch wealth to beryllium made, truthful overmuch glory to make, to pursue.

"So there's a batch connected the line, and that's what motivates me."

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