Notebook: Tim Tszyu vows to fight on after one-sided TKO to Fundora
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Tim Tszyu probably would prefer to forget the nightmarish past 16 months but he has vowed to fight on in the wake of his stunning one-sided destruction at the hands of WBO junior middleweight titleholder Sebastian Fundora in their rematch.
“When I first started this sport, what I said was I wanted to get to the very, very top, and I didn’t mind crashing or burning on the way up,” Tszyu, his face still marked up, said in a video posted to his social media on Tuesday. “Sitting here now, we did crash and burn, but we still move forward. Some things go your way; some things don’t. What happened last weekend didn’t go my way, but we still move forward.”
Fundora dropped Tszyu in the first round, cut him over the right eye and battered him into submission as he elected to remain on his stool after the seventh round in the co-feature of the Manny Pacquiao-Mario Barrios Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view card on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
It was such a one-sided defeat it raised real questions about whether Tszyu would continue to box, given that he dropped to 1-3 in his last four fights. That stretch includes two stoppages — to Fundora and getting dropped four times in a brutally one-sided third-round knockout challenging IBF titlist Bakhram Murtazaliev in October.