All of the goodwill Tim Tszyu has both earned and attracted with his fighting heart and spirit will likely count for little today.
It is a lonely place, being Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena.
Rocked and dropped repeatedly by Bakhram Murtazaliev at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday night before losing in the third round, the Australian star is today perched on boxing’s scrapheap – a social media whipping boy who, it turns out, was naïve, foolish and reckless in steering his ship towards Murtazaliev in the aftermath of the only previous defeat of his now 24-2 (17 KOs) career…