There are two things most prizefighters chase their whole career:money and legacy,in that order.
The football codes,on the other hand,continue to deny scientific findings and to promote full contact versions of their sports for young children.
Sebastian Fundora’s team is pledging to offer Tim Tszyu a rematch after their bloody world championship bout on Sunday.
The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.
Jeff Horn,the only Australian to have fought boxing’s pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford,says Tim Tszyu should have “swallowed his ego” against Sebastian Fundora.
Questions are being asked about the Australian’s world title fight being allowed to continue after he received a nasty gash on his forehead.
Tim Tszyu was looking in control against his opponent Sebastian Fundora before an unintentional elbow from the American completely changed the fight.
The Australian boxer faces an uncertain future suffering a massive head cut and a split decision defeat against the ‘Towering Inferno’,Sebastian Fundora.
Will Tim Tszyu be able to back up the boast that his family will become boxing’s greatest? Not according to Cory Spinks,whose clan has its own strong claim.
On Sunday in Las Vegas,Tim Tszyu will face an opponent eerily similar to the one his father,Kostya,fought at Parramatta Stadium in 1996.
Victory over Sebastian Fundora will set up a mega-fight against Terence Crawford,with the purse set to dwarf anything won by Ash Barty and Cam Smith.