{"id":45845,"date":"2021-03-17T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45845"},"modified":"2021-03-17T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:59:17","slug":"hogans-jab-at-completely-average-tszyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45845","title":{"rendered":"Hogan's jab at 'completely average' Tszyu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu's upcoming opponent, Brisbane-based Irishman Dennis Hogan, says the undefeated Aussie has had an easy run as of late, having not come up against any fighter who's proved a hard task ahead of the pair's bout at the end of the month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tszyu, the son of the legendary Kostya Tszyu, will have a chance to continue in his father's footsteps when he faces Hogan (28-3-1), who has lost two challenges for a world title in his last two fights.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Tszyu knows he must defeat Hogan if he's to ever have a shot at Brian Castano, who recently claimed the WBO super welterweight belt in a unanimous points win over Patrick Teixeira.<\/p>\n

But according to Hogan, Tszyu will face his toughest challenge yet, with the 36-year-old making it known he's a class above his younger opponent.<\/p>\n

\"Dennis<\/p>\n

"He's not as good as me," Hogan told reporters.<\/p>\n

"I've got more skills, I've got more everything and I fully believe I'm the better boxer.<\/p>\n

"That's why this fight excites me so much. I've never wanted a fight as much as this my whole life.<\/p>\n

"I believe It's my time and you will all see why."<\/p>\n

Asked if Tszyu hadn't been tested yet following recent TKO wins over Jeff Horn<\/a> and Bowyn Morgan<\/a>, Hogan responded with: "Exactly how I feel".<\/p>\n

"Even Jeff at his best, he was a welterweight," he said.<\/p>\n

"The guy (Bowyn Morgan) he knocked over in the first round was a welterweight.<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n

"Two of the best from his most recent wins are people that are genuinely at a lower weight category.<\/p>\n

"They're talking about him and all his power but he didn't put a scratch on Jeff regardless of how the fight went down.<\/p>\n

"That won't be me, I'm fully confident in my own abilities. I know I will get the win, something inside me has opened up."<\/p>\n

Tszyu took down Horn during the eighth round, while Morgan was brutally knocked out just seconds into the bout.<\/p>\n

Despite Tszyu's win over Horn, who famously defeated the legendary Manny Pacquiao in 2017<\/a>, Hogan said the pair's bout wasn't as impressive as it may have seemed for fans of the 17-0 Aussie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"He's (Tszyu) more a counter puncher," Hogan added.<\/p>\n

"I don't know what Bowyn was thinking when I watched the fight. I knew it would be over soon. He walked straight in with his hands up and started walking into Tim's right hand.<\/p>\n

"For Jeff, I think Jeff was overconfident as well and he thought he would get Tim out of there and have a bit of fun really. That was another thing in itself.<\/p>\n

"I'm all in for this, this is my whole life and I will be taking this seriously. I won't be doing silly things.<\/p>\n

"I'm going to make him look average, completely average."<\/p>\n

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Tim Tszyu's upcoming opponent, Brisbane-based Irishman Dennis Hogan, says the undefeated Aussie has had an easy run as of late, having not come up against […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45847,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45845\/revisions\/45847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}