Boxing: Bakhram Murtazliev has warned Tim Tszyu for talking too much ahead of their title fight.
‘Right hand worth $1 million’: Hall of Famer’s huge prediction for ‘greatest Aussie fighter you’ve never heard of’An American Hall of Famer has heaped praise on undefeated Australian prospect Mateo Tapia, telling the longtime sparring partner of Tim Tszyu: “You’ve got a right hand worth $1 million”.
BOXING: TSZYU V MURTAZALIEV | Tim Tszyu faces off against undefeated IBF super welterweight champ Bakhram Murtazaliev | SUN 20 OCT 10:30AM AEDT |And that crown is now being supported by a man who, after winning light heavyweight and cruiserweight gold himself, is now tipping the 26-year-old to launch his own championship crusade on the undercard of Tszyu’s shot at IBF super welterweight king Bakhram Murtazaliev.
A fighter who, after winning silver at the 1984 Olympics, would then go on to claim both the WBA and IBF light heavyweight titles, plus the WBA cruiserweight title over two decades from 1996.While Tapia now lives and trains out of St Petersburg, Florida, he started this year in Los Angeles at the famed Brickhouse Boxing Gym -- which is where he caught the eye of Hill, who now lives and trains fighters himself in California.
“Every time I came in to spar from then on,” Tapia says, “Virgil would tell me the same line again and again.
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