TIM TSZYU will compete in America for under the second time as a professional when he fights Keith Thurman on March 30 in Las Vegas.
The combat, which can happen on the T-Cellular Area, headlines the primary Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) occasion on Amazon Prime and has reportedly been signed at a catchweight of 155 kilos.
Tszyu, 24-0 (17), is the present WBO super-welterweight (154 kilos) champion having received that belt with a 12-round choice over Brian Mendoza in October. He has spent the majority of his profession within the super-welterweight division and has additionally fought primarily in his native Australia, the place, because the son of the nice Kostya, the 29-year-old has constructed fairly the next.
His solely combat exterior Australia thus far was in opposition to Terrell Gausha in March 2022. That was one other combat Tszyu received through choice, but he needed to rise up off the canvas within the very first spherical within the course of.
Keith Thurman (Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions)
Thurman, in the meantime, a former welterweight belt-holder recognized for his explosive energy, has been largely inactive as a professional, particularly of late. His final combat, a 12-round choice win in opposition to Mario Barrios, was all the way in which again in February 2022 and that additionally occurred to be his first combat since shedding in opposition to Manny Pacquiao in the summertime of 2019. In different phrases, since beating Josesito Lopez 4 years in the past, Thurman has fought simply twice (in opposition to Pacquiao and Barrios). That, for a 35-year-old who depends on his timing and sharpness, is something however perfect and Tszyu, in distinction, is any person whose type owes so much to the momentum he has been capable of generate by staying energetic and recurrently successful fights.
It stays to be seen whether or not this issue would be the deciding one when the pair meet on March 30.
