By Ray Wheatley — World of Boxing
IBF #12 light middleweight Tim Tszyu (14-0, 10 KOs) will collide with Jack Brubaker (16-2-2, 8 KOs) on December 6 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. “As you’ve seen, I am improving, I am getting better. Tszyu said. “For me, it’s another challenge, another exciting time for myself to close out the year on my third Main Event pay per view.”
Tim’s famous father, Kostya Tszyu attended the announcement of his son’s December 6 bout, and had some advice for Tim ahead of his fight with Brubaker. “Never underestimate anyone,” Kostya said.”Every step is hard, every fighter is willing to beat you and you have to be the best. You have to sacrifice to achieve something. Discipline in what you eat and how you live and what you do.”
Hall of Famer Jeff Fenech, the trainer of Brubaker said, “A lot of people talk about Tim and if he could be half as good as his dad…Let me tell you, if he’s half as good as his dad – excuse me – he’s going to be a f***ing good fighter.
“Tim’s worked his backside off. I’ve known him since he was a boy, I’m not a huge part of his life, but I’ve seen this kid develop into where he is today – the face of Australian boxing.”
It must give Brubacker confidence when his trainer is telling everyone how good Tim is ……. hardly !!
Brubaker is gonna get KO!
Meanwhile, Jeff Horn clears up the air that he ate subway, not pizza. But hey, Thurman ate pizza a few hours before fighting Pacquiao. And not sure how long before the fight that Horn ate subway, it was probably a few days. Horn was sick with the flu too. One thing is for sure, the winner of Tszyu and Brubaker may be beneath Zerafa now, since Zerafa is chasing a big bucks fight. But for Horn, fighters from AUS around 154 lbs, he can’t complain. He could always take the rebuilding route of bringing in Thai fighters to AUS to fight recovering contenders. Some guy fighting at 154 last time to a draw, by the name of Thotsaphol Thongplew, would be a test. Nick Frese, a guy from the Netherlands fighting out of Thailand, team Horn could try to get down to 150. Walter Kautondokwa, the guy who lost to Andrade for the vacant WBO title, would be a test for Horn (plus the guy is almost 35, which team Horn likes to fight older guys who can lead them to something big), if team Horn wanted to try to stay at 160 and prove something.
Horns a bum, he needs to go to light middle to have a chance at anything, he is to small for middle weight and has no skill being there.