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BOX:How boxing great helped Tim Tszyu get 'mentally right'

Tim Tszyu Sebastian Fundora WBO

With an Australian boxing legend in his corner, fallen world champion boxer Tim Tszyu is aiming to go full circle in his career rebuild.

Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) will return to the same ring where he first became a world champion to take on former unified welterweight world champion Errol Spence Jr (28-1, 22 KOs).

The July 26 bout at Afterpay Arena in Sydney Olympic Park comes three years after Tszyu beat American fighter Tony Harrison to claim the interim WBO super-welterweight title.

The 31-year-old's career has since stalled, first losing his WBO title and the vacant WBC belt to Sebastian Fundora in 2024, before a brutal world-title loss to Bakhram Murtazaliev later that year.

Tszyu then lost a rematch against Fundora in 2025, a despairing seventh-round TKO defeat.

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