IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) says Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) “didn’t count on” the left hook that he damage him with initially within the second spherical, which made the shot doubly highly effective on his third spherical TKO win over the previous WBO champion on Saturday night time on the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
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Tszyu by no means knew what hit him with the primary left hook in spherical two, and it was all downhill from there. He could be the primary to confess that he made errors in selecting to proceed to commerce with Murtazaliev after the preliminary knockdown within the second.
In hindsight, Tszyu, 29, ought to have boxed after the primary knockdown and stayed away from Murtazaliev as a result of he was repeatedly catching him with left hooks. Tszyu didn’t see these pictures coming and was knocked down thrice in spherical 2. That spherical was a nightmare for Tszyu.
Curiously, Tszyu didn’t be taught his lesson as a result of he was nonetheless buying and selling in spherical three, and his coach had advised him earlier than going out for the spherical to field.
“That left hook was very highly effective, and he didn’t count on it. Once you don’t count on it, it’s double impression,” mentioned Bakhram Murtazaliev, chatting with the media following his third-round TKO win over Tim Tszyu on Saturday night time in Orlando.
“I used to be pondering within the first spherical about feeling his energy and seeing how exhausting he hits. Lots of people say that they will see my pictures, they usually’re sloppy, however he was hitting like that, too. So, I may see every little thing, and I wished to counter him.
“I’m simply inquisitive about unifying my title and combating any champion there. I need to combat the champions after which transfer up a division,” Murtazaliev continued. “We didn’t plan something. If it ended within the first spherical, it could have ended then. If it ended within the third spherical, I wasn’t anticipating something.
“I used to be able to go all 12 rounds. Yeah, it was not that onerous as a result of it ended so early and I didn’t get hit that a lot.