The former unified welterweight champion Stevenson, now 36, said he does not believe Tszyu’s pressure style matches up well with the former unified welterweight champion.
“I Got Errol”
“I got Errol. I don’t think Tim Tszyu can do anything with him,” Stevenson said to The Agnew podcast.
“I don’t see Tim Tszyu being the guy to beat Errol.”
The fight comes with major questions attached to both fighters because neither has looked like the same version of himself in quite some time.
For Tszyu, the decline arguably began before his first fight with Sebastian Fundora in 2024, with defensive flaws and punishment gradually piling up before losses to Fundora and Bakhram Murtazaliev damaged his standing at junior middleweight.
Although Tszyu has looked good in his three confidence-builders fights since his first clash against Fundora, he looked poor in the rematch and was blown out in three rounds by Murtazaliev.
Spence’s timeline stretches back even further. Some fans believe the sharpest version of Spence disappeared years ago, with signs of slippage becoming noticeable after his 2018 fight against Carlos Ocampo and later becoming more obvious following his car crash in 2019.
“Experience Doesn’t Go Nowhere”
“I feel like that experience has doesn’t go nowhere,” Shakur said.
“For me personally, I feel like an in-the-box fighter like Tim Tszyu is going to get destroyed fighting like that against Spence.”
By the time Spence returns against Tszyu, nearly three years will have passed since his loss to Crawford. In boxing terms, especially for a fighter in his mid-30s with years of punishment behind him, that is a very long absence from the ring.
