Rising junior middleweight star Tim Tszyu has not taken kindly to a number of the statements being made about him by a number of the prime boxers within the weight class.
Tszyu is the highest rated contender underneath the World Boxing Group, with a title shot looming in opposition to WBO world champion Brian Castano.
First, Tszyu must overcome an upcoming showdown with Takeshi Inoue on the Qudos Financial institution Enviornment on November 17.
Tszyu views Castano as a more durable problem than WBC, IBF, WBA champion Jermell Charlo.
Castano had not too long ago said that he does not imagine Tszyu had achieved sufficient to warrant a world title shot. He additionally jabbed Tszyu for his refusal to face anybody away from dwelling soil.
“Yeah, as soon as I begin smacking him within the face he’s going to remorse his phrases, I assume,” Tszyu mentioned to the Sydney Morning Herald.
“That’s the factor. He’s on obligatory now, so he’s received no alternative however to combat me. Look, Castano, he’s going to be a tricky problem. Charlo, I don’t price Charlo. I by no means did. To combat for all of the belts, you understand what? I’d want profitable every belt one after the other, identical to Canelo Alvarez did. You get to take out each champion and everybody that’s within the division as an alternative of only one. So we’ll see the way it goes.
“Castano is a tricky competitor. He’s awkward, he’s powerful. And Charlo’s simply overrated. Charlo’s simply in a world of his personal. I assumed Charlo was going to win, however in my eyes I believe Castano received that combat. [Castano’s] strain and his awkwardness; he’s solely small and he all the time makes it into his combat, so the intention is to make his combat into my combat.”
