Tim Tszyu a crossroads before Joey Spencer Fight

“It is the way you come back from your defeats. This is the central point of life. They are not just victories in every aspect of life; it never happens, it does not exist.

“You will face the defeats, and it’s about collecting it.”

What moves on Sunday will determine whether these consecutive losses were an aberration or the end of a career once in progress.

Tszyu’s return struggle will be against the American Joey Spencer (19 wins, a wins, a defeat) at the Newcastle Entertainment Center.

There is a lot around the result. Tszyu is a cash cow for the promoters without limit and main event, the issuer who charges players $ 70 to tune in to every fight. When Tszyu hit the canvas for the fourth and last time at the Cariber Royale of Orlando, their respective prices of the shares crashed through the floor.

“We think of ourselves as superheroes, and I still do it,” says Tszyu, who has resembled Clark Kent more than Superman during his two losses.

“I feel like a superhero in a certain point before fighting. Sometimes you come back to reality.

“The struggle is part of life. Instead of running away from it, I think we have to embrace it. He teaches you things that he will not teach you when you are relaxed and in your comfort zone.

“You take me? The fight is good and people need to embrace him.”

Tszyu says so while his personal chef, Omar Iferd, is in the kitchen to prepare his lunch. In the menu today there is steam chicken and melts fermented with rice. There are never more than 150 grams of carbohydrates a day on his plate at the head of a struggle, to make sure he weighs at the limit of 69.85 kilograms. The couple played with the idea of ​​opening a restaurant together, to take the name from Tszyu’s dog, Pablo.

In the courtyard there is a sauna, where Tszyu posed for the photos taken by Herald The photographer Sam Mooy and a dip pool that has been relaxed to help recovery. A beer refrigerator full of Coronas is incongruously found on the back bridge.

“For when friends come,” explains Tszyu.

The setting is located a mile away from the swagger and bullshit that accompanied every step by Tszyu towards a world title that has recently given up. Your correspondent has pushed his right share.

In various stages the “soul taker” – it is a moniker in which he relied with reluctance – fueled the hyperbole of the title: I can be the maximum weight champion of the world; I’m on the verge of a Payday from $ 20 million for combat; I’ll be a Family name in America; I take a Take the title for Russia; I am a member of the The largest boxing family in history (which can happen, although the Spinks clan has strong statements).

‘The struggle is part of life. Instead of running away from it, I think we have to embrace him. “

Tim Tszyu

The only thing Tszyu never said is that it could be better than his old man.

Kostya Tszyu was in such a cross -brown crossroads, when he entered a burst of hands right with reformed drug addict Vince Phillips. The shocked loss was the catalyst for the boxer with a pork tail to return even stronger, on his way to the boxing hall of hunger.

Tszyu Jnr believes that the loss for Murtaziliev will be his moment of Vince Phillips.

“Yes, I believe it,” he says. “The chances were in our favor and everything had a part, but this does not help you.

“You become a different person after. It changes you, spiritually, mentally, physically – as you approach life, as you see life from all perspectives.

“And your hunger changes.”

For the first time from the professional debut of Tszyu, in the loss of Murtaziliev, Kostya was in the corner of his son. Unusual, Tszyu exchanged blows with Russian, rather than showing the controlled aggression that was its distinctive sign. Perhaps, even unconsciously, was the thirty year old trying to impress his father with his hardness?

“No, it wasn’t like that at all,” he says. “It was a bit uncomfortable to have it, I imagine. You are not used to it.

Kostya will not be in the front row at the Newcastle Entertainment Center on Sunday. The Tszyu clan of Kostya, Tim and Nikita have a record in the city – nicknamed Tszyucastle – of 50 fights and zero leaks.

“We had good memories there with the family, so I can’t wait to go back there,” he says.

Rather, it is the inheritance, but not one who wants the next generation to continue. Tszyu plans to have their own children, but he doesn’t want them to go up to the ring.

“No. No way,” he says. “I want my children to learn boxing, learn how to defend themselves, to learn to be able to move away from the fighting, to stay away from the bullies, to be able to defend themselves.

“I don’t want them to fight.”

For now, the fists will be left to Tszyu. Sunday’s result could determine how much time continues. A third consecutive loss will require that Tszyu’s requests retire. Or even worse, to face Michael Zerafa, a Tszyu match-up refused to entertain after the latter came out of a scheduled reckon.

To avoid that fate and start the return journey to the world contest of the title, Spencer must defeat. By his own admission, he fell into the trap of looking beyond the opponent in front of him, instead focusing on potential rivals and wealth beyond. The error will not be repeated.

“When I was fighting Jeff Horn, I was like, here, we were just going all,” he says.

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“This is what I want (again), go all in, don’t think about other shit.”

When you talk about the difference between winning and losing, between throwing someone out and finding you on the canvas, Tszyu Canna the character of Al Pacino on a date Sunday.

“They are thumbs, literally inches involved in sport,” he says. “It is a question of making changes to those centimeters that make you capture and then go up to the top.

“This is all that is for me, find those thumbs, grouping and find out that I came back.”

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