By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing
WBO #2, IBF #4, WBC #7, WBA #8 light middleweight Tim Tszyu (16-0, 10 KOs) will clash with New Zealander, IBF#15 welterweight Bowyn Morgan (21-1, 11 KOs) on December 16 at the Bank West Stadium in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Australian heavyweight contender and Rugby League legend Paul Gallen will clash with UFC and MMA star Mark Hunt on the undercard on a Main Event Foxtel Pay-Per-View show.
“It’s incredible to be in this position to put on one of the biggest live sporting events in Australia after the year we’ve all had,” said the CEO of No Limit Boxing, George Rose. “Hats off to everyone, especially the New South Wales Government, for the way in which they have managed the response to the pandemic, because the reality is without it, we wouldn’t be here today announcing this exciting event for punters to enjoy the week before Christmas.
“I expect it to not only be the biggest crowd for a fight in Australia this year, but also the biggest audience – full stop. Why wouldn’t it be? You’ve got the undisputed star of Australian boxing in Tim ( Tszyu) taking on the best from New Zealand in (Bowyn) Morgan.
“Then there’s the two legends, two absolute sporting icons in Gal ( Paul Gallen) and Mark ( Hunt) Everyone knows there’s no love lost between these two.”
So Tim is fighting a welterweight? There are better fighters in Australian at light middle or middle weight but he wants to fight the smaller guy. Pretty disappointing and underwhelming.
I agree. However, I am sure his team is seeing flaws in his arsenal and cherry-picking an opponent can improve his fighting technique for bigger things to come. My 2 cents….
Tim is still a young 25 and hopefully after this fight he can go for bigger challenges. He’s done good so far, just needs to step it up a notch or two.
Unfortunately all too familiar route buy Aussie boxes you’re not going to get where you going fighting this level of opponent
Before everyone starts critisizing maybe there were circumstances where this fight was the only one gettable.Maybe others were already committed, maybe people just didn’t want to fight him. We dont know.
Some of you are just negative people full stop.
That’s right, not a lot of fights to be made easily and with money to be made. We can have a crowd at a boxing event in Australia = ticket sales, merchandise and hotel PPV. While we can have crowds, not a bubble – Tim will have at least one fight down under.