Junior middleweight titleholder Bakhram Murtazaliev has maintained a low profile main as much as his showdown with Tim Tszyu in PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video on Saturday on the Caribe Royale Resort, Orlando, Florida.
However one factor introduced out the talkative aspect of Murtazaliev in anticipation of the bout: “The most effective a part of preventing Tim Tszyu is that he received’t run,” Murtazaliev mentioned. “He’s coming to struggle. I really like preventing within the heart of the ring. It’s going to be an important struggle for the followers to look at on Saturday night time.”
Roma Kalantaryan, Murtazaliev’s head coach, echoed his fighter’s eagerness to have interaction Tszyu within the ring: “We had an important eight-week coaching camp, Bakhram is 100 per cent able to defend his titles, and I consider he’ll be victorious,” mentioned Kalantaryan, who ready Murtazaliev in Oxnard, California, for this matchup. “Tszyu is an efficient fighter, a troublesome child who is aware of the way to field, and he doesn’t get drained. We’ve fought that sort of fighter many occasions earlier than and we’re ready for something he brings. We’ve the benefit on attain, peak and, I believe, energy as properly. There are going to be two stress fighters in that ring on October 19.”
The 31-year-old Murtazaliev, 22-0 (16 KOs), secured his world title in his final outing, touring to Germany to knock out Jack Culcay within the eleventh spherical. Now, he’s getting ready for his largest U.S. problem thus far, aiming handy Australia’s 29-year-old Tszyu his second consecutive defeat.
“I’m trying ahead to preventing Tim Tszyu as a result of he talks so much and he has a well-known identify in boxing,” Murtazaliev famous. “It actually doesn’t matter who I struggle. My mentality is at all times the identical, and I’ll struggle whoever they put in entrance of me. I’m simply excited to defend my title.”
