The Psychological Warfare: Fundora’s Impact On Tszyu’s Mentality During Their Brutal Rematch

Sebastian Fundora says he believed that Tim Tszyu was a distinct fighter for his or her rematch final Saturday evening in comparison with how he fought him final 12 months. The WBC junior middleweight champion Fundora (23-1-1 15 KOs) famous that Tszyu (25-3, 18 KOs) didn’t need to “get hit,” and he took benefit of that by unloading on him.

Tszyu’s Psychological Defeat

Tim fought aggressively within the sixth and seventh. Nonetheless, he took plenty of punishment in each of these rounds from the nonstop punches being thrown by Fundora. After the seventh, Tszyu selected to not enable him to proceed. Judging by Tim’s physique language within the last seconds of spherical seven, he seemed mentally defeated. He’d fought as onerous as he may in that spherical, and but it wasn’t sufficient.

“I simply noticed him not desirous to get hit, and we took benefit of that. We took the lead by that, and getting the primary spherical knockdown modified the tempo of the struggle,” mentioned Sebastian Fundora on the post-fight press convention, responding to the query of whether or not he noticed a distinction in Tim Tszyu’s combating type for the rematch.

Tszyu initially tried to not get hit, however by the sixth, he was simply plodding ahead, throwing haymakers with most energy in them. He’d gotten determined as a result of Fundora had already knocked him down within the first and constructed up a large lead. He didn’t know the way to shut the space towards ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora. The wild photographs that Tszyu was throwing have been typically arising quick.

Tim was combating flat-footed like in his earlier conflict towards Fundora, not shifting his head, and having issues touchdown his photographs. He needed to are available vary to throw, and Sebastian took benefit of this to land his punches. When Tszyu was on the skin, the lanky 6’5″ Fundora used his jab to hit him repeatedly.

Fundora Not Shocked by Stoppage

“I wasn’t stunned as a result of my fights are fairly brutal,” mentioned Fundora when requested if he was stunned Tszyu’s nook stopped the struggle after the seventh spherical. “The overhand left that I caught him with within the first spherical, that was a punch that I knew I used to be going to do harm. Getting within the first spherical put me in excessive spirits.”

Tszyu had certainly one of his greatest rounds of the struggle within the seventh, touchdown six or seven bombs that might have knocked out plenty of fighters. Fundora took them effectively, however finally would have had issues if Tim had continued to struggle past the seventh.

Within the final 10 seconds of the seventh, Tszyu shelled up towards the ropes, and Fundora capitalized on this to pummel him with punches. Tszyu’s coach possible based mostly his determination to halt the struggle on the way in which Tszyu went to the ropes. That was not a transfer that Tim sometimes does in his fights.