Incredibly, Tszyu is the second boxer hailing from Kostya's academy in suburban Sydney to snare a world title in the past 18 months. The only man to have beaten Charlo, Harrison (29-4-1, 21KO) had derided Tszyu as 'the bottom of the totem pole' for beating mostly nobodies and riding his family name to his date with destiny.īut the motor mouth found out the hard way that Tszyu is deserving of his place at the top table in the stacked super-welterweight division. He could have waited for Charlo to recover, but placed his world title dreams on the line by taking on Harrison, the one-time WBC world champion. Tszyu was supposed to have squared off with Charlo in Vegas in January before the American broke two bones in his left hand in training. In preserving his undefeated record, Tszyu (23-0, 16KO) also secured a unified mega-fight later this year, likely in July in Las Vegas, against undisputed divisional king Jermell Charlo. The Tszyus join an elite group of just six father-son boxing world champions, including Julio Cesar Chavez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, and Leon and Corey Spinks. The hometown favourite's victory came 28 years after Kostya knocked out Jake Rodriguez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - when Tim was barely two months old - to capture his maiden world title, the IBF super-lightweight strap. 'The better man won tonight,' said Harrison (29-4-1). Tszyu dropped Tony Harrison in the ninth round forcing the ref to stop the fight
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