The primary free Amazon Prime Video boxing card is in superior negotiations for an Oct. 19 debut, three boxing officers with data of the cardboard confirmed to BoxingScene on Wednesday.
The deliberate headline bout is former junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu returning on to a title battle in new IBF belt holder Bakhram Murtazaliev’s first title protection.
Australia’s wildly standard Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) is getting back from a horrific head lower suffered in his misplaced WBO-WBC title battle March 30 in Las Vegas, when Sebastian Fundora’s elbow opened up a prolific wound that bled profusely all through a battle Fundora received by break up determination.
If Tszyu had it his method, he would’ve returned to the ring Aug. 3 in opposition to Vergil Ortiz Jr., however the lower hadn’t healed in time.
Now that he’s recovered, Tszyu seeks to reunite with a 154-pound belt in opposition to Russia’s Murtazaliev (22-0, 16 KOs), an Oxnard, California-trained fighter who captured the vacant belt April 6 by venturing to Germany to fulfill native Jack Culcay, knocking out Culcay within the eleventh spherical.
The Murtazaliev-Tszyu card is being pointed to Orlando’s Caribe Royale Resort, however the website deal will not be finalized but, sources mentioned.
World Boxing Information first reported Tszyu-Murtazaliev was headed to Oct. 19.
Tszyu is planning to be extremely lively, aiming to battle as usually as 4 occasions a yr – fairly an endeavor in a division that ranks as maybe the deepest in boxing.
Since Fundora additionally fights underneath the Premier Boxing Champions banner, he’s Tszyu’s superb opponent for 2025, however Fundora is at present in an unsure window.
He’s obligated to battle new four-division champion Terence Crawford if the WBA 154-pound titleholder from Nebraska invokes his obligatory place on Fundora.
If Crawford as a substitute opts for a profitable date organized by Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh in opposition to unbeaten WBC interim titleholder Ortiz, then Fundora is prone to battle former three-belt welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. as early as October.
The free Prime Video debut, accessible by SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand), follows no less than 4 Prime Video pay-per-views.
Tszyu-Fundora was the primary, adopted by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Jaime Munguia in Could, Gervonta “Tank” Davis-Frank Martin in June, Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga on Sept. 14 and maybe Fundora-Spence, with one other Davis pay-per-view anticipated in November.
The free Prime Video debut was purported to even be on the Orlando resort, with former tremendous middleweight titlist Caleb Plant set to fulfill Trevor McCumby this weekend, however McCumby was injured and the bout was shifted to the Alvarez-Berlanga card.
