Comments Thread For: Q&A: Kostya Tszyu

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Kostya Tszyu retired from boxing as one of the finest of all junior welterweights when, in 2005, he lost to Ricky Hatton in one of the fights of the year, since when so little of him has been seen. On Saturday, at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, for the first time in eight years he attended a fight involving his son Tim, who was stopped by the IBF junior-middleweight Bakhram Murtazaliev. On the eve of Murtazaliev-Tszyu, the 55-year-old Russian-Australian Kostya spoke to BoxingScene.
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[Smash]

Question: is your son a brainless chinless wonder?
Answer: Yes

[DJ Daz]

Question: is your son a brainless chinless wonder?
Answer: Yes

Don't be a f#@kwit mate. Talking a lot of ****, you wouldn't last 30 seconds sparring Tim.

[Smash]

Don't be a f#@kwit mate. Talking a lot of ****, you wouldn't last 30 seconds sparring Tim.

2 words

left hook

[Dee @ PYP Boxing]

Right on time with the predictable, sheepish call outs of how Tim Tszyu was overrated. Save it. If that was true, you would have bet against him several times before and made a load off last night. Instead, you probably doubted the whole way through and relied on eventually being right. Tim proved his mettle several times up to this point. He was a flawed fighter, yes, but showed much better pedigree than he did vs Murtazaliev. last night. He fought arrogantly and without respect for his opponent's abilities and it cost hiim big. As with all fighters who get stopped like this, where he goes from here largely depends on how he takes this loss mentally and emotionally. His father lost at a similar point in their career vs Vince Phillips, everyone wrote Kostya off in the same way and he still regrouped and became a unified champion afterwards. Tim has a ton of heart and those are the types of fighters I like to pull for. Not the ones that avoid challenges and continuously seek the optimal conditions for a fight.

[MalevolentBite]

Tim needs to take a long break and really do a soul search after that beat down. If he decides to come back ( I think he will for easy fights and money) he needs a new team. The fact your team allowed you to bleed out for 12 rounds then allowed you to get beat down for 4 rounds they don't care about you.

[archiemoore1]

I think Tim will come back because he's exceptionally courageous and determined. I think he just greatly underestimated this opponent, and you can't do that, no matter who you are. You come out and establish a good quick, snappy jab and see what's going on first, you don't just walk to a man and keep your head right there to be hit. That's not boxing, that's cave man sh...t. Tim was literally trying to walk down a big puncher, without using any jab or head movement or feints. That's insanity, but he'll be back. I don't know if he can fix his problems though, because you fight like your personality, and Tim is one strong, brave, crazy mofo. That mentality got him this far, and it could be what does him in

[BlackRobb]

Very sad beating. More sad is how his fans and team knew he had major shortcomings, but gassed him up and filled his head full of Tough Man rubbish. If he's not careful, Tszyu will wind up a punching bag vegetable brain like Chuck Wepner.

[BlackRobb]

I think Tim will come back because he's exceptionally courageous and determined. I think he just greatly underestimated this opponent, and you can't do that, no matter who you are. You come out and establish a good quick, snappy jab and see what's going on first, you don't just walk to a man and keep your head right there to be hit. That's not boxing, that's cave man sh...t. Tim was literally trying to walk down a big puncher, without using any jab or head movement or feints. That's insanity, but he'll be back. I don't know if he can fix his problems though, because you fight like your personality, and Tim is one strong, brave, crazy mofo. That mentality got him this far, and it could be what does him in

No. He's done at the top level. Maybe if he could be fed opponents like Tony Harrison that he could steamroll, I could see him continuing, but he's almost 30 and lacks the defensive skills and self-awareness to prevent this from happening again. Fans like you who lied to him and filled his head with a lot of corner saloon tough guy nonsense are partly to blame.

If he fights again, his next opponent should be an Ericson Lubin or Jack Culcay type, just to see where his mind and spirit are. If he can't handle that level of opponent, no sense in moving to Vegas and continuing. If he's getting shelled at 154 like this by Murtazaliev, imagine what happens at middleweight against guys like Sheeraz, Lara and Alimkhauly.

[TonyRespectful]

So it turned out it wasn’t Russians Kostya should have avoided!LOL