Sergio Mora was in awe of IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev final weekend, saying he reminded him of the good Alexis Arguello with how he seemed destroying former WBO champion Tim Tszyu in three rounds on the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Murtazaliev’s Exact Punches
Commentator Mora says he realized within the first minute and twenty seconds of the battle that Tszyu was in bother as a result of Murtazaliev seemed Arguello-esque, throwing brief punches with accuracy. Tszyu made issues simpler for Murtazaliev by going proper at him and attempting to have a conflict, however he acquired destroyed.
Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) got here into the battle with a damaged knuckle on his proper hand, which is generally the primary weapon in his arsenal. He adjusted properly to the harm, utilizing his left hook to repeatedly droop Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) to the canvas in a four-knockdown efficiency.
Mora feels it was dangerous matchmaking on Tszyu’s group’s half to decide on to match him in opposition to the highly effective Murtazaliev in his first battle after he suffered his first profession defeat in opposition to the 6’6″ Sebastian Fundora on March thirtieth. He feels that Tszyu ought to have been given a confidence booster as a substitute.
“Within the first minute of the primary spherical, I notice that this man goes to present issues to Tim Tszyu,” mentioned Sergio Mora to the Chris Mannix YouTube channel, speaking about Bakhram Murtazaliev’s destruction of Tim Tszyu final weekend.
“It solely took me one minute and twenty seconds to appreciate this man was going to be a headache. He had a laser-like proper hand, the uppercut, and the hook, which he ended up dropping. He jogged my memory within the first minute when he missed that proper hand, and he threw a left hook like an Alexis Arguello.”
Murtazaliev wasn’t utilizing his proper hand loads within the battle. Many of the large punches that he landed had been along with his left hook, and it was nearly like he was combating with only one arm.
“They’re laser-like, don’t waste no area, and the approach is ideal. It’s not pace that will get you; it’s not energy that will get you. It’s time and accuracy. That’s what I noticed with Murtazaliev when he missed that first proper hand, after which he threw that left hook and caught up with that proper uppercut,” mentioned Mora.
It was shocking to see how properly Murtazaliev fought in shut quarters as a result of taller fighters usually want a variety of room to generate energy on their punches. That wasn’t the case with Murtazaliev. He gave the impression to be punching tougher in shut than he did from the surface, and that was bizarre however devasting.
“I mentioned, ‘This man goes to be bother.’ Regardless that they weren’t touchdown cleanly, it was going to be a protracted evening for Tim Tszyu. It ended up being a brief evening as a result of it ended up being a three-round conflict that he was on the finish of, however dangerous matchmaking since you go from a 6’6″ southpaw to an unknown, sturdy, undefeated Russian title holder,” mentioned Mora.
Tszyu seemed like he hadn’t achieved any analysis on Murtazaliev’s previous fights to know what he was getting himself into by combating this man. If he had checked out his latest victory over Jack Culcay, he would have rejected him as an opponent.
