Tim Tszyu dismisses IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev ahead of Orlando world title fight

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Tim Tszyu dismisses IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev ahead of Orlando world title fight

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By Simon Smale

Topic:Boxing

Tim Tszyu says he's heard all the jibes before.

In short:

Tim Tszyu says he is a "step above," dismissing IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev ahead of their fight in Orlando.

Murtazaliev said Tszyu was "the most hyped name in boxing" earlier in the week.

What's next?

ABC Sport will live blog the Murtazaliev vs Tszyu fight on Sunday, October 20.

Tim Tszyu has knocked back suggestions from IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev that he is over-hyped, with a scathing put down just days out from their junior middleweight world title fight in Orlando on Sunday morning (AEDT).

Undefeated Russian champion Murtazaliev (22-0) told media earlier this week that Tszyu was "the most hyped name in boxing," adding that the Australian "talks a lot".

"You can talk a lot before the fight," Murtazaliev told US website Fight Hype.

"But doing it is completely different story."

Tszyu countered by saying he'd heard it all before.

"I've listened to that since the start of my career," Tszyu said.

"[It's] not new. They keep saying that, a couple have started respecting, but then you get another one and again, hype blah blah blah, more and more bulls**t.

"It is what it is, I guess."

Tim Tszyu lost his super welterweight world title clash with Sebastian Fundora in Las Vegas.

The 31-year-old added that he had been avoided his whole career, which Tszyu (24-1) laughed off as "nonsense".

"He keeps saying that, Bakhram, he’s much avoided," Tszyu said.

"That's nonsense.

"I've been chasing him for a long time, so that's nonsense."

Instead, Tszyu derided Murtazaliev as a "step-aside" fighter — someone who is offered money to step aside from title fights due to their lack of marketability, despite their high ranking.

Murtazaliev had been paid off in this fashion as many as three times by former undisputed light middleweight champion Jermell Charlo.

The younger of the two Charlo twins had also ducked Tszyu twice — officially due to a hand injury — before being ordered to hand over his WBO super welterweight belt to the Aussie, who consolidated his status as world champion by belting Brian Mendoza on the Gold Coast.

""I'm here to take the biggest challenges, the hardest fights, the biggest fights and create a legacy and make a s**t-tonne of money," Tszyu said.

Tim Tszyu says he is more marketable than his opponent.

"That's what I'm here for.

"Him [Murtazaliev] on the other side, he's step-aside money this and that and whatever man.

"We're in two different worlds."

Tszyu will be aiming to become a two-time world champion, having surrendered his WBO belt in a brutal and bloody split decision defeat against Sebastian Fundora in March.

Murtazaliev, meanwhile, won the IBF strap by beating Jack Culcay by 11th round knock out.

The Russian said that he was "100 per cent" certain he would dispatch Tszyu in the same way.

Tszyu has only been knocked down once in his professional career, on his US debut against Terrell Gausha.

"[It's a] tough challenge I guess," Tszyu said.

"But I'm just here to show that I'm levels above, it’s quite simple."

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