Notebook: Tszyu to challenge Murtazaliev for 154 title on Oct. 19
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IBF junior middleweight titlist Bakhram Murtazaliev and mandatory challenger Tim Tszyu will square off on Oct. 19 in the main event of a PBC on Prime card at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, sources with knowledge of the bout told Fight Freaks Unite.
It will be the first non-pay-per-view event since PBC and Prime Video announced their multi-year deal in December and kicked it off with a March 30 pay-per-view in Las Vegas, where Tszyu lost the WBO title and a chance to claim the vacant WBC belt by split decision in a bloody battle with Sebastian Fundora.
Tszyu promoter No Limit Boxing, which works with PBC and TGB Promotions on Tszyu’s fights, and Murtazaliev promoter Main Events notified the IBF that they have made a deal and a purse bid scheduled for Sept. 5 has been canceled.
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