On Sunday in Orlando, the impression made by Bakhram Murtazaliev’s stoppage of Tim Tszyu has ensured that so much of what came before it has become little more than an afterthought. Little over a week before fight night, however, plans had existed to relocate their fight to Las Vegas, such were concerns surrounding the coming storm.
Hurricane Milton was described by Joe Biden as the “storm of the century”, and it threatened not only Murtazaliev-Tszyu at Orlando’s Caribe Royale, but forced Chris Colbert-Omar Salcido to be postponed.
By the time of Kostya Tszyu’s arrival in Florida on Thursday there was barely a hint of the hurricane that reached the state’s Siesta Key on October 9, but Premier Boxing Champions’ determination to stage the first non-pay-per-view fight of their broadcast agreement on Amazon Prime meant that until then they had feared that their grand unveiling was at risk…