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Tim Tszyu takes on American fighter Joey Spencer in a super welterweight clash at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre that has huge ramifications for the Australian boxer's career. Follow all the action in our live blog. Key Events Live updates By Simon Smale If you want to watch the fight, you're going to have to pay up.
The pay per view card is exclusive to Main Event in Australia and will cost a cool $69.95. That pay-per-view card has just got underway now on Main Event, so now is your cue to either get the wallet out, or just stick here with us.
By Simon Smale There were three fights on the preliminary cards, and there was some spectacular action too. Starting off, rising super lightweight beat in his debut professional performance, winning by 2nd round TKO. O'Connell dropped Amos twice in the first round and there wasn't much else to add from there on out.
O'Connell is a junior world champion, and the son of women's champ Shannon O'Connell. Then, in the middleweight contest, unleashed his "Beekin left hook" to dispatch with another second round TKO. It was Daye's first career defeat in his seventh fight.
Then, in the final contest before we went pay-per-view, Kiwi fighter came out hard against , but the 31-year-old Victorian landed some really good shots and had Mikhailovich, who last-time out fought for the IBF middleweight title, in a bit of bother. However, a nasty cut caused by an accidental head clash above the right eye, followed by another above the left, looked like it would really hurt the Aussie. However, a desperately close six-round contest eventually went the way of Wells by split decision, 58-56, 56-58, 59-55, condemning the world championship challenger to a second-straight defeat.
By Simon Smale Here's how the full pay per view fight card shapes up for today's entertainment in Newcastle. Prelims By Simon Smale Hello boxing fans and welcome to what will be a pivotal day in the career of Tim Tszyu, as he fights Joey Spencer in Newcastle. Boxing is a sport that embraces hyperbole like no other, but make no mistake, this is a big one.
Coming off two straight defeats, Tszyu's career is very much on the line. A third-successive defeat will surely, certainly end his status as a fighter worthy of the biggest stages and world title shots on merit alone. A win though, well that offers a glimmer of hope for the 30-year-old Sydneysider that he will be able to challenge again on those big stages and prove that he remains a power to be reckoned with in Australian and global sport.
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