Undefeated Australian celebrity and WBO Junior Middleweight World Champion Tim Tszyu will look to make the primary protection of his world title when he battles streaking prime contender Brian Mendoza headlining motion dwell on SHOWTIME® on Saturday, October 14 (Sunday, October 15 in Australia) from the Gold Coast Conference and Exhibition Centre in Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia in a Premier Boxing Champions occasion.
The SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL® telecast begins at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT and also will function Australia’s rising contender Sam Goodman squaring off towards former world title challenger Miguel Flores in a 12-round featherweight bout.
The occasion is promoted by No Restrict Boxing and The Rose Brothers, in affiliation with TGB Promotions.
“Tim Tszyu is likely one of the sport’s busiest stars and can as soon as once more look to problem the perfect when he faces the fast-rising Brian Mendoza on SHOWTIME October 14 in Australia,” mentioned Tom Brown, President of TGB Promotions. “We’ve seen in latest outings that each of those fighters have the power to finish a struggle at any second, and that ought to result in one more memorable struggle within the stacked 154-pound division.”
The 28-year-old Tszyu (23-0, 17 KOs) will look to proceed his red-hot 2023 that started with him stopping former world champion Tony Harrison in March on SHOWTIME in a career-best efficiency that earned him the interim title. He adopted that up in June with a first-round KO over Carlos Ocampo and was lately elevated to the complete WBO champion when former Undisputed Junior Middleweight World Champion Jermell Charlo challenged Undisputed Tremendous Middleweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez in a shedding effort on September 30. A local of Sydney, Australia, Tszyu made his U.S. and SHOWTIME debut towards U.S. Olympian Terrell Gausha in March 2022, incomes a unanimous determination. Tszyu grew up taking part in soccer, however quickly gravitated towards boxing. The choice led to him following within the legendary footsteps of his father, Kostya Tszyu, who was an undisputed 140-pound champion and who was inducted into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame in 2011.
“There was no celebration, no nothing when Charlo stepped within the ring towards Canelo and I turned world champion. I’ll really feel like a world champion as soon as this struggle with Mendoza is finished,” mentioned Tszyu. “I wish to earn it that manner Brian and I are each in that prime one % of fighters on this planet. He’s a method I haven’t confronted earlier than and I do know he thrives on that underdog mentality. So, he after all has my respect. However he’s in there with somebody that is a distinct breed and it’s not going to finish nicely for him. I promise to show any remaining non-believers into believers. That is my time and my division now.”
Initially from Albuquerque, New Mexico and now preventing out of Las Vegas, Mendoza (22-2, 16 KOs) scored one of many 12 months’s greatest upsets in April as he blasted out the beforehand unbeaten Sebastian Fundora with a sensational one-punch knockout in spherical seven, solidifying his personal standing at 154 kilos by capturing the interim WBC title. Reinvigorated since teaming with famend coach Ismael Salas, Mendoza had beforehand knocked out former unified 154-pound champion Jeison Rosario in November 2022. Mendoza has received three fights in a row since dropping a call to extremely touted knockout artist Jesus Ramos in September 2021. Mendoza additionally owns a 10-round unanimous determination overcome Thomas LaManna in August 2020 and started his profession with eighteen consecutive victories.
“Combating for the world title is an unbelievable alternative and I’ll be ecstatic after I win, as a result of the dream isn’t simply to struggle for the title, the dream is to convey it dwelling to my household,” mentioned Mendoza. “I’m ending up coaching camp and feeling sharper than ever. I’m in the perfect form of my life and able to placed on one other explosive efficiency. I’m getting into there to put all of it on the road, as a result of I do know that profitable this struggle will change my household’s life for generations to return.”
The 25-year-old Goodman (15-0, 7 KOs) burst by to turn into a prime contender in June as he earned a career-best determination in edging out elite 122-pounder Ra’eese Aleem. It was Goodman’s second consecutive win over a reputation model contender as he had beforehand dominated former world champion T.J. Doheny in March on his method to a unanimous determination. After a formidable beginner profession that included 4 nationwide championships and an look within the 2017 World Newbie Championships, the Australian from Albion Park, New South Wales turned professional in April 2018 and started compiling his unbeaten document.
Flores (25-4-1, 12 KOs) returns to motion having most lately battled former three-division champion Abner Mares to a aggressive attract September of final 12 months. Earlier than that struggle, the 31-year-old stopped a two-bout shedding streak with a call over Diuhl Olguin in June 2021. These losses had are available in a 130-pound title struggle towards four-division champion Leo Santa Cruz and towards prime contender Eduardo Ramirez. Born in Mexico and now residing in Spring, Texas, Flores turned professional in 2009 at simply 17-years-old and was victorious in his first 22 bouts.
