Tim Tszyu has a rematch that he can use to power a second combat with WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora subsequent, giving him an opportunity to avenge his loss final Saturday night time in Las Vegas.
Those that noticed the combat don’t imagine that Tszyu’s reduce made a distinction within the final result. They assume he would have misplaced even when he had been 100% as a result of he couldn’t sustain with the excessive work fee from Fundora.
Followers Need One thing Totally different
If Tszyu, 29, goes to activate his rematch clause, it can disappoint many followers. They’d somewhat see Fundora combat Errol Spence or Terence Crawford subsequent than watch Tszyu get a second likelihood after failing miserably, shedding a 12-round cut up choice.
Though Errol Spence seemed to followers that he’ll be subsequent up for Fundora, it’ll be as much as Tszyu to resolve if he desires to take the speedy rematch.
There could be extra fan curiosity in seeing a combat between Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) than desirous to pay to observe a rematch between Tszyu and Fundora. A rematch received’t do huge numbers with out Tszyu returning towards one other opponent.
That may not matter to Tszyu. He simply desires to avenge his loss and win again his WBO belt.
The Harm Complication
What might complicate a rematch is the period of time that might want to get well from a deep scalp reduce on the highest of his head.
If that reduce will take a lot of the the rest of this yr to heal, it’s not honest to Fundora (21-1-1, 13 KOs) or the followers to sit down and look ahead to Tszyu to heal up to allow them to run it again.
Even earlier than Tszyu suffered a foul reduce, he was loading up on single photographs and never throwing many punches. In different phrases, Tszyu was preventing like he did after the harm. It’s very probably that Fundora nonetheless would have received the combat if the reduce had not occurred.
Fundora’s peak and attain had been a giant downside for Tszyu, and the harm wasn’t as a lot of an element as some followers thought.
The Superb State of affairs
One choice could be for Tszyu’s administration to postpone the rematch with Fundora and wait till he faces Errol Spence or Terence Crawford to combat the winner of that match.
That might be perfect as a result of it might give followers a extra interesting combat between Fundora and a kind of two stars. It will additionally permit time for Tszyu’s harm to heal.