Former world champion and Australian superstar Tim Tszyu scores a shutout victory over Denis Nurja after 10 exciting rounds.
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00:00Welcome to the ring, Australia's true world star, this is the phoenix, this is Tim Zhu.
00:17Tim Zhu, 30 years of age, fighting for the first time in Wollongong, his 26th fight in his native
00:25of Australia where he's 25-0 with 18 knockouts, you see him flanked by his new trainer, Pedro
00:32Diaz, Zhu is a pressure boxer-puncher with elite composure, punishing bodywork and a throwback
00:40appetite for trench warfare. Under Diaz's watchful eye, Zhu says that his fight IQ has been completely
00:48rebooted. The reckless seek and destroy instincts have given way to sharp Cuban-Soviet fundamentals,
00:55we're talking angles, lateral movement, lead hand control, and defensive precision. After
01:02an eight-week camp in Miami, the body, he says, is healed, the habits have been rewired, and
01:08Zhu is trading brute force for cerebral cruelty. As he puts it, using his brain, not just his
01:15physical gifts. And he said, I need the effing knockout. The word that comes to mind for Tim Zhu
01:22is annihilation. So, we are set for the main event, contested at 160 pounds, the former super
01:34welterweight champion, Tim Zhu, against the upset-minded, undefeated, Dennis Nuria, scheduled for 10 rounds.
01:45He is older, he is taller, they both have the same reach, and they both weighed in about the
01:53same again, well under the 160-pound limit. Back to the ring announcer, Steven Peos.
02:06Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back once again. This is our main event of the afternoon. Our feature
02:13bout proudly brought to you by Matt George and Trent Rose, the Rose brothers of No Limit Boxing,
02:19Australia's number one boxing promotion, bringing Australia to the world. In conjunction with Mr. Al
02:25Heyman and premier boxing champions in the United States of America. Broadcasting today from the
02:32Wollongong Entertainment Centre right here in New South Wales, Australia, live on Foxtel's main event,
02:39Pay Per View, together with PBC on Amazon Prime in the USA. Main event this afternoon sanctioned by the
02:48Combat Sports Authority of New South Wales, Supervisor Ringside, Mr. Angus Henderson. We have 10 rounds for
02:55the vacant WBO International Middleweight Championship, the World Boxing Organisation
03:01Supervisor Ringside, as always the unmistakable, Mr. Danny Lee. Scoring our main event today, your judges,
03:09Will Silos, Leanne Reid and John Couchy, timekeeper Ringside, Mr. Jonathan Knight, Ringside Physicians
03:16in attendance, Dr. Alan Saunders and Dr. Amit Chan. And when the action gets underway, third man in
03:22charge, the very experienced referee is Mr. Les Fear. So now ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and boxing fans
03:31here in Wollongong, New South Wales, time to make some noise and everyone watching around Australia and around
03:38the world. The boxers are pacing, the time is now. So Wollongong, let me hear you say, we are ready.
03:58This is our main event on Main Event. Introducing first, boxing to my right tonight, boxing out of the red
04:09corner. He wears the white, brown and gold frilled trunks, tipping the scales 71 kilograms, neat or 165.5 pounds.
04:22He holds an undefeated professional record of 21 fights with 20 wins, one no contest, nine big wins
04:31coming by way of knockout. At super welterweight, he is the WBA number 12 ranked contender in the world,
04:39hailing from Tirana in Albania via Reconati in Italy.
05:03And now ladies and gentlemen, we cross the ring. Let's make some noise, Wollongong, as we introduce the man,
05:09boxing out of the blue corner. He wears the black trunks with the orange trim.
05:18He weighed in 71.18 kilograms or 157 pounds even. Trainer in the corner, Dr. Pedro Diaz,
05:28nuevo entrenador. Bienvenidos, Dr. Pedro Diaz. His professional record reads 29 fights, 26 wins,
05:36three losses, 18 big wins coming by way of knockout. At super welterweight, the WBC number 6 and the IBF
05:45number 8. And at middleweight, he is the WBO number 4 ranked contender in the world. He who has risen
05:53on
05:53his path to world title redemption, presenting your former WBO super welterweight champion of the world,
06:03Australia's true world star from Sydney, Australia. This is the Phoenix Team Zoom.
06:24Boxer centering pre's for Les Fears Instructions.
06:28All right, fellas, obey my instructions at all times. And most importantly,
06:32fellas, protect yourselves at all times. Good luck. Touch them up.
06:36So on Easter Sunday in Australia, are we set for the rise or a major fall?
06:44This is former world champion Tim Zhu and the undefeated Dennis Noria.
06:51Ben Zayman in commentary alongside former world champion Pauli Malignaggi.
06:57And Tim Zhu meets him at centering.
07:01And looks to get that jab away in the early stages of this one as Noria works to the body
07:07himself.
07:07And looks to get that jab away in the early stages of this one as Noria works to the body
07:07himself.
07:11A big moment for both of these fighters, potentially life-changing for Noria and Zhu,
07:19and we know what is at stake for him.
07:25Technical feel out in the first seconds of the fight is both guys exchanging jabs.
07:30And we are trying to be consistent with that jab and trying to offset what Zhu is trying to do.
07:35Nice jab there by Noria, catch Zhu stepping in.
07:37Nice jab there by Noria, catch Zhu stepping in.
07:38Nice jab there by Noria, catch Zhu stepping in.
07:38Yeah, strong jab from Dennis Noria, early on here.
07:42He found Tim Zhu on the way in.
07:45He found Tim Zhu on the way in. Zhu jabs his way as well.
07:50And he goes one-two to Zhu.
07:53And interesting talking to him in his dressing room an hour or so ago.
07:58And he was pretty clear that he was going to be trying to get out there
08:02and produce something spectacular as the left hand gets through from Noria.
08:09Yeah, he feints the jab and actually came in with a nice left hook.
08:13Went to the body with the same hand as well as Zhu just falls short with that right hand.
08:17Yeah, Zhu is trying to find that proper distance here, Ben.
08:20He's coming up just short with the right hand, but he's trying to establish himself.
08:23Still trying to press forward.
08:27Reaching out to the body, Zhu.
08:29And we're doing a good job of stepping in, stepping out.
08:32Sliding just out of range there.
08:34And stepping back in with a couple of double jabs.
08:37He comes forward with that left hand again, and then he pumps it straight out that left hand, Noria.
08:43Zhu tries to go one-two.
08:47And they just find their way in tight here, but Noria, he is happy to go back to that range.
08:52One-two, Zhu.
08:56And jabbing, Tim Zhu.
08:58Zhu finally find the range there.
08:59He had been coming up just short.
09:01Gets in range, and now he's starting to touch Noria as he catches Noria again with a good right hand.
09:07They found his way to the good range there, did Zhu, and the right hand got through, but
09:13Noria just backs up in a straight line, and then he comes forward in the same direction.
09:18But now with Noria coming up short, Zhu has his distances measured nicely.
09:23It's a little step backwards there from Zhu as Noria came towards him.
09:28Zhu was making a nice jab. He's starting to find that range in the second half of the round.
09:44Reaching out to the body, Denis Noria.
09:48And he's certainly not overawed the Albanian as some thought he might be.
09:54He had some good success, particularly with a jab and a left hand in that opening round.
09:59Tim Zhu just found his way through the first three minutes, and here he is with Dr. Pedro Diaz.
10:06You have no focus on that one.
10:07Five, that's big.
10:08So, five, two, three, four.
10:10You're on, okay?
10:11Two, five, three, four.
10:22How do you guys?
10:33Good job.
10:44So nothing too much to report out of the opening three minutes of this one, as they
10:49return to the battle, Zu and Nuria.
10:56Feels tense, Paulie.
10:58You can tell there's a lot at stake for these guys.
11:00Yeah, yeah, for Nuria, it's the opportunity to reach the levels that he's only dreamed
11:06of.
11:06And for Zu, obviously, he's trying to convince himself and convince the rest of the world
11:10that he belongs back at that elite world level.
11:15Jabs upstairs and works to the body there to Zu. Nuria, he finds a right hand of his
11:20own, a right drive to the body of Zu.
11:22Backs up now.
11:25Zu starts to open up a little bit more with Nuria now against these ropes.
11:30Nelson.
11:31Firing out from there with a right hand, but Zu's underneath it comfortably, then
11:34he doubles up that left hand to Zu.
11:37Found the range for it nicely.
11:38Double, left uppercut, left body shot.
11:41A jab, though, from Nuria again.
11:43Now Zu jabbing.
11:49And there's a hush here in Wollongong.
11:54Maybe it's missing one night.
11:54That tension妳 talking about, Ben.
11:55You know what, people waiting for a fight to break out,
11:57that tension you talking about, Ben.
11:58People waiting for a fight to break out, both guys
11:58need for a fight to break out, both guys trying to technically feel each other out
12:01here.
12:02One, two, Git.
12:05Trying to find the body, Nuria.
12:07He leaps out there with the left hands.
12:19Noria racing forward again as Azou just steps in towards him.
12:24Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, Dennis.
12:27One thing I'd like to see more of Azou, man, give him different looks.
12:30He's given one look when he presses.
12:32He's given one look when he presses.
12:34He's given a very defensive look that you can create a different kind of opening,
12:38especially for Noria,
12:39who's given you a very defensive look and drawn the most simple.
12:43He's given you, you know, a very defensive look and drawn the most simple.
12:43Leaning back Azou, and then he fires.
12:47Noria over the top with the right hand.
12:51Azou does close in on him here against the ropes again.
12:54Azou's pressure is deliberate.
12:56He tries to shove him away as Noria reaches out with the left hook.
13:0145 seconds left in round 2.
13:04tim zoo just goes to southcourt and throws wildly for a moment then he provides a right hand
13:08straight down the middle onto nordia who does back up again onto the ropes and zoo shoves him
13:13goes to the body and he gets away and out of trouble at least momentarily does nordia
13:18he was trying to put that mental pressure on like you're not breaking position even when
13:22nordia throws punches zoo is trying not to back off too much left hook was good from zoo uppercut
13:27as well nordia over the top wildly right hand from zoo and nordia presses forward and hangs on here
13:33see again zoo not breaking position even when nordia throws punches where does you go nowhere he
13:37slips he slides but he stays in range that causes a lot of mental stress on a fighter because he's
13:41trying to punch at you to get you away from him
13:47and it started to open up a bit in round number two this fight between tim zoo and dennis nordia
14:00and the italian albanian corner of dennis nordia
14:08they enter their discussions after the second round of action here
14:14and what did we see paulie you see that jab there from zoo trying and then penetrating right hand
14:19between the guard you see keeping it simple you're doing there's another one two from zoo there but
14:24what i also like here you see zoo doesn't break position you see when nordia throws punches where does
14:28you go not too far back you see he's trying to keep position so that he keeps nordia stressed that
14:33was a
14:33little bit of balance there on nuria as he's stepping around there's that one two from a different angle
14:44so anytime nuria throws at zoo you see zoo trying to hold his ground trying to slip
14:48from where he is and that way if he doesn't back off of nuria it creates that mental stress on
14:52nuria
15:12that's the thing the closer zoo gets the more creative he's going to be able to be with the
15:19punches because it creates more punching options but again there's a slip and rip from zoo not giving
15:25up ground not losing position there's an uppercut from nordia and he turns around the left hand as
15:29well but zoo he comes straight back and just touching as nordia steps in with the right hand uppercut from
15:38zoo
15:42and he's standing in southpore at times as zoo trying to find that angle of the man who's parked in
15:48front
15:49of him step back stop the time time it's twice now keep holding or take a point okay warning on
15:55the run
15:55for holding for the visitor one two zoo right hand was a good one off the back of the jab
16:03for zoo he tried to
16:04find it again nordia leapt out there with the left hand but zoo just backing away
16:13one two again from tim zoo and again the deliberate pressure
16:19is starting to cause new year stress new year's output is actually increasing
16:22but it's more of a panic increase body shot from zoo and he will try and employ that more and
16:27more
16:28yol
16:29is there's an old talk of the ball
16:35yeah he wants to get zoo off but can't get nice little left shots there from noya but again
16:42where does he go nowhere he can't get the respect of zoo with his power
16:46is he caught him with a left hand there but there wasn't enough on it for zoo to be dissuaded
16:51and now he just shuffles in towards Nadia again backs off for a moment to give himself some space
16:56Tim Zhu and he'll go one two and he thuds the right hand in right to Dennis Nadia there
17:02sometimes steps in trying to cause a clench he's trying to get himself a break because
17:06he can't get himself a break by punching it says Zhu doesn't really go anywhere
17:10body shot Zhu Nadia's comes straight back but it was a good punch to the body
17:15body from Tim Zhu and the Australian well he stands there and takes a shot from Noria
17:25and that one two is exactly what he's trying to do here today
17:30just a moment there when Noria put him to the back of the head and there's an
17:42apology and he shoots wildly with the left hook but can't find Tim Zhu and they come together
17:48there a little awkwardly but no damage done at the end of the round so
17:55this one's just steady at this point and certainly no panic in either corner at this point
18:10okay
18:11okay
18:12okay
18:17down go down
18:20remember one and six it's very important
18:25one and six
18:36so very calm in both corners
18:40plenty of encouragement for the fighters
18:46and they return to action
18:50round four
18:53here on an easter sunday in australia
19:02jabbing now Zhu
19:05what would you be saying in the Tim Zhu corner Pauli
19:08so i would say you know continue this mentally stressing Noria but also you know like i said
19:13change the looks a little bit you know change the levels there that's a nice level change there
19:16when he went to the jab to the stomach and i want to see some of that some of that
19:19counterpunching
19:19i want to start Zhu making Noria pay for when when he misses because he's had him missing he's
19:24had him coming up shorty times there's no count there wasn't a lot of counterpunching
19:28it's good to leave with offense but also to make your opponent pay with your own offense
19:32with your solid counterpunching i think we're at the point in the fight where Zhu can get the timing of
19:37and he's just giving a few different oh clash of heads clash of heads and there is a cut now
19:45for
19:45Tim Zhu and this is so familiar it is underneath the eye at least on this occasion there's a bit
19:52of redness between rounds oh it's a bad cut too but it's underneath the eye it is under the eye
20:00so
20:01and yeah we know where it came from it's from this moment it is a very deep cut but it's
20:10not in a bad
20:11position so Tim Zhu shoves Dennis Noria away yeah he does you know Noria sometimes jumps in and that's
20:18what led to the clash of heads as well so i think Zhu now has had enough shoving him off
20:22anytime he
20:23tries to physically muscle his way in so Tim Zhu has seen his own blood he's well aware of what
20:29has
20:29happened here he's been in this situation so famously before let's see if he does try and apply the pressure
20:37and if he can finish this early so the blood doesn't continue to pour all over the places it has
20:44before
20:49do you expect to see that urgency from Tim Zhu here Paulie i think he wants to just he wants
20:54he wants
20:54to impress i'm not the blood is not in a bad spot it looks bad because it's it's blood and
20:58it's leaking
20:59but it's underneath the eye so it's not going to go into any any place vital like i think you
21:03know
21:03somewhere to prevent your eyesight of course if i'm Noria i'd be jabbing live just to try to break it
21:09up more but i don't know if Noria has that ability he presses and he drops it down and down
21:16goes
21:23to the temple he heard him too with a few shots en route to the canvas
21:32Noria desperately now but Zhu with the urgency you imagine Ben he was looking for the one-two but it
21:39was the left hook that was the answer he landed the one-twos didn't get the response he wanted
21:43past the left hook that has hurt Noria a lot and Noria is in big trouble as Tim Zhu tries
21:50to finish this fight
21:52he's been cut and he wants to get out of there Noria he is rocky
22:01he is hurt and he's taking uppercuts and now he hangs on and perhaps
22:07that'll be enough to get him out of this round so blood for Zhu got a knock down as well
22:17and Noria now has 60 seconds to attempt to get his legs back underneath him
22:36so they try to revive their man and this is what caused it
22:44and this is backed up to the corner right there that
22:46it's actually the top of the head maybe even by the behind the ear which is a real
22:51soft soft spot for your equilibrium behind the ear and it's a legal shot by the way it's perfectly
22:57legal behind the ear and it's it's one shot that if you get caught right it does mess up your
23:02equilibrium and that's exactly where Zhu caught him all those one-twos but the left hook was the answer
23:07well let's see if he can find it again a bloody tim Zhu against a rocky denis noria who's brave
23:18here
23:19and gets back on his jab the albanian body shot from noria as well and working hard is noria
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23:56not
24:01He's trying to throw those probing punches, trying to create an opening.
24:07Noria leaps out, there's a body shot from Zou, Noria tries to go over the top.
24:14Body shot from Zou, gets an immediate response from Noria.
24:18And if Noria doesn't start to counter those body shots, he's gonna start paying any price for them.
24:23You gotta dissuade Zou from throwing them by making them pay for throwing them.
24:26One of the ways you make them pay is to catch and shoot with a right uppercut,
24:29and block him on the arm, and then come back up with a right uppercut.
24:31But if Noria doesn't start countering, Zou's gonna have a field day with those uppercuts.
24:35He's clearly encouraged, isn't he, Tim Zou, by what he just saw with the body shot.
24:39He goes there again as Noria, his lapses against these ropes.
24:42He tries to go the body himself, does Noria.
24:44And there's a good left hook there from Noria.
24:49Zou wore it nicely though, and he closes in again on the Albanian.
24:57He tries to find the body there to Zou.
24:59Noria covers right up.
25:02One, two, three, Zou.
25:03Over the top of the right hand as well as the blood courses down his face.
25:08Zou almost treating this like a sparring session now, kind of working on some things,
25:12probing with some punches, throwing other punches hard,
25:14trying to see what openings he can create.
25:16I feel like in some spots, it's almost like he's sort of playing with his food here now.
25:21But maybe he wants to work.
25:23Maybe he wants to be able to, you know, showcase some things,
25:26and also practice some things.
25:31Noria tries to get to the body.
25:34Zou will do likewise if given the opportunity.
25:38Reaching out is Noria.
25:40Gamely.
25:42Oh, that one might have gone a little low.
25:44That one didn't.
25:45That was a good left trip.
25:47That's a good punch over the top two from Zou.
25:50And Noria just covering up.
25:52He'll leap out with something.
25:54But he's crowded there.
25:56I'll tell you though, since the cut opened up on Zou,
25:58it's almost like it raises the level up, you know.
26:01He's putting more pressure, throwing more punches.
26:06He's still kind of probing with some shots,
26:08but he's probing with the intent to hurt.
26:10He backs off before the belly even opens.
26:12Yeah.
26:13I feel like I'm not done playing around yet.
26:14Yeah.
26:16He's content.
26:18Team Zou, despite that blood.
26:27Gaping wounds, but as we have been saying,
26:30not in a bad position,
26:32as it will not impact the vision of Tim Zou.
26:39And those punch stats do tell the story of the fight.
26:42Tim Zou has scored up and downstairs,
26:46and overall is in charge here.
26:50He's close to Zou.
26:51Hungrym's right, Hungrym's right, Hungrym's right.
26:53It's not then, really the same.
26:57Fucking close.
26:58measly big thing.
26:59Push actually keeps the other.
26:59Cut, cut, cut.
27:02The burnout
27:03Brilloubridge won 1.
27:06It's good!
27:10Witcher won 2.
27:12Alan Saunders just went over into the corner
27:14in between rounds to have a look at the cut.
27:17He's got absolutely no issues with it, of course.
27:30Jabbing Zou.
27:32One-two, he goes again.
27:37Counter shot from Zou after Norja sat down on a right hand.
27:43Body shot.
27:46Body shot from Zou.
27:48It impacted Norja again.
27:51Yeah, Norja doesn't have an answer.
27:52He doesn't have a response for the pressure of Zou.
27:54And that's why Zou is just calmly walking him down,
27:58probing with some shots, throwing others hard,
27:59just trying to practice some of the combinations,
28:01maybe practice some of the ways he's going to open up some,
28:03or create some openings.
28:08Only thing is, Norja's not a southpaw.
28:11Otherwise, I would say maybe Zou is practicing for Spence,
28:15you know, working on some things he wants to show.
28:17But Norja, Spence is not a southpaw.
28:20No, he's not.
28:21Again, you see these little short, tight shots,
28:23and Norja just cannot get Zou off of him.
28:25He's trying as Norja.
28:27He slams his gloves together,
28:29but he is just sitting there as Zou.
28:32Oh, big left hand from Norja.
28:34Again, it's not enough to get Zou off him.
28:36Zou just calmly and casually continues to walk him down.
28:40Works in some ways.
28:42In other ways, he's throwing hard,
28:43and in some ways, he's probing, creating openings.
28:45I'm telling you, 30- pitch in the normal spot happening,
28:48The normal spot happening.
28:54Body shot, Zou.
28:56Body shot, Zou.
28:56Well-placed body shot, as well.
29:03�орη zum.
29:04There's one right now, but there's one right now.
29:06And that one here, so.
29:06One, two and then finds a job is Maria.
29:15Moves backwards and continues to do.
29:17Some.
29:20Action.
29:21Not only hire somebody who.
29:30I was waiting for.
29:32I was wanting to want him.
29:34Punches over the top, just trying to open things up for himself.
29:38I know you're trying to smother now because he has no other way of recourse.
29:42You know, nowhere to rest.
29:43You can't get away from Zu.
29:45So he figures maybe if he smothers him.
29:46He's already got two warnings for holding earlier in the fight,
29:49so he's got to be careful there.
29:50He doesn't hold with the smothers.
29:51And here again, Zu working.
29:53There's a shot from Zu and he's rocked him.
29:56No one is in trouble again.
29:58And Zu will try and get clear and find something clean here.
30:04But they tangle Noria, still on unsteady legs.
30:10And he gets another 60 seconds to recover.
30:14There's Denis Noria, who was hurt again.
30:19A serious conversation going on.
30:33Yeah, the trainer's telling him he's got to believe in himself.
30:35What David Creadere means you've got to believe in yourself.
30:38We've got a translator here.
30:39I forgot.
30:39Yeah.
30:42Oh, geez.
30:43High on the head, too.
30:44Good right hand there from Zu.
30:45And that's, again, it was on the temple.
30:48See that equilibrium area with the behind the ear and the temple.
30:51Well, earlier in the fight, he hurt him on the other side of his head with the left hook behind
30:55the ear.
30:55This one with the right hand in the temple area, behind the ear area.
30:59Yancey effort to stay up because a couple of uppercuts got through after that initial shot.
31:04He just kept bobbling around.
31:11And he steps forward with a bit of intensity here, Tim Zhu.
31:15So he had his man hurt.
31:16He's been down already as Denis Noria.
31:19But can Zhu finish things off here in round number seven?
31:31One, two, Zu.
31:36You almost get the feeling if Zu
31:38wants to turn it up a gear, he probably gets the stoppage.
31:41He's content to sort of cruise here in this.
31:44It seems like a second, maybe a second gear at most,
31:47to get the working.
31:48Guys.
31:51turns that shot around to the
31:53best, came on.
32:09Come on.
32:10Come on, break, break!
32:15So you got to be helpless if you ignore it.
32:16You can't get Zu off you.
32:17You don't have any answers.
32:18You're just trying to stay motivated.
32:20Your corner's trying to motivate you.
32:21You're really out of technical responses here.
32:26And Zu just keeps, you know, just letting him hang around just enough.
32:31You would think maybe Zu doesn't like him or have something personal against him
32:34and keep him hanging around and punishing him like this instead of putting him out of his misery.
32:39Let's see if he does step it up, Tim Zu.
32:42Because he certainly went up a gear when that cut appeared.
32:46He did.
32:46He's been happy to cruise since then.
32:51It's almost like he was about to get the stop and he said,
32:52you know what, I want to work a little more.
32:55Kicked it back down again.
32:57He's in no hurry at all, Tim Zu.
33:07There's a hook from Zu to lead.
33:09And the right hand off the back of that combination got on to Nuria
33:14and prompted a response from him.
33:16And I like the little touch-probing shots from Zu.
33:18And I also like the change of speed on the shots.
33:20I like how he changes speed mid-combination.
33:23It's one of the things it seems like he's trying to work on as well.
33:25Because if you can create the opening,
33:26then you sort of ramp up the speed right in the same combination.
33:30You touch, touch, and all of a sudden you pick up the speed
33:32and you face the power.
33:36Nuria started throwing some shots,
33:37and that prompted a response from Zu.
33:40So with 30 seconds left in round seven.
33:44He's in store for us here.
33:46See, again, Zu doesn't break position.
33:48You wouldn't know your throws.
33:49Zu's position doesn't break.
33:50He remains a position right in front of Nuria,
33:53so that causes that mental stress as well as the physical part,
33:56which is the punches.
33:57Tom, get out of here.
33:58Tom.
33:59Poor guy's going to lose points for holding, too.
34:01That's all he's got left.
34:02One point, continuous holding.
34:03One point, continuous holding.
34:05One point, continuous holding.
34:07You're right?
34:08Okay.
34:08Let's go, Tommy.
34:09If nothing else, and...
34:10I don't know if the holding was that sustained
34:12to take a point, though, right?
34:14He's trying to smother and give himself a break,
34:16but it's not like he's also...
34:20He's trying to survive.
34:23Understandable.
34:24And he does get through another round of Dennis Nadia,
34:26but, gee, the body language is not uplifting for the Albanian.
34:33Up in.
34:35And Tim Zu, despite that wound,
34:39very clearly playing with his food here in Rwongong today.
34:49138 shots have scored to the kid.
34:52Dennis Nadia.
34:55A bunch of body shots to go with it.
34:57Now, now, hold.
34:59Hold and tight.
35:01Okay.
35:01Cross, cross.
35:02Don't forget the defensive.
35:03Who the heck?
35:04For a start.
35:05Okay?
35:06Opetitia, and then go.
35:08Up.
35:09Three.
35:10Up.
35:11Seventicel.
35:15Come on, Tim Zu!
35:16Come on, Tim Zu!
35:16Come on, Tim Zu!
35:18Come on, Tim Zu!
35:19He's in this Nadia.
35:22Slams the gloves together again and tries to talk himself
35:25into what remains of this fight.
35:27All right.
35:28What does Tim Zu want to do for this Easter Sunday crowd?
35:33Does he step it up?
35:37Has he got a bit more learning to do as he finds a shot over the top
35:42and then a shot to the body, and now he tries to find the body
35:45with the left hand as well, does Tim Zou?
35:47And he is closing in a little here and putting Nouria on the ends of his punches.
35:53I'll tell you what, at this point, we're in round eight.
35:56For Nouria to go the full distance of ten rounds,
35:59it will be a feather in his hat,
36:00and possibly getting him another opportunity against somebody else,
36:03you know, to get paid.
36:06You know, having a resume, you don't beat him beat Zou,
36:09but you went to distance with Zou, you know?
36:10Sort of like Velasquez did.
36:15Well, that would be the goal at this point for him because,
36:18gee, it'd take something remarkable for him to snatch victory here
36:22against Tim Zou, but Zou just content at this pace
36:27and at this level at the moment.
36:28Yeah, again, it has not increased the gears.
36:30Yeah, again, it has not increased the gears.
36:33Workman-like performance for Tim Zou.
36:41Counter shot from Nouria.
36:47Now, 90 seconds left in round eight of this fight.
36:51It is a ten-rounder.
36:52Now, 90 seconds left in round eight of this fight.
36:54Now, 90 seconds left in round eight of this fight.
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37:21Thuds through, onto the Albanian, and Zhu gets his way clear again.
37:29They're at range, right hand from Norja.
37:32Body shot, Zhu.
37:34He backs off for a moment as Denis Norja, he felt that body shot.
37:39Can Tim Zhu find another?
37:41And that's the thing, I mentioned earlier in the fight,
37:43for Norja to discourage those body shots,
37:45he's got to at least make Zhu pay for them.
37:46Here we go, one over three, zero, two, three, three, four, three, four, three, four, three, four, three, four, three,
37:51four, three, four, three, four, three, four, five, five.
37:54It's just hurting for Norja every time he takes one of those.
38:00Norja trying to...
38:01Mike, Mike, step back, finish, finish, finish, finish.
38:03So again, he's getting warnings for holding, but again, it's not really holding,
38:05because Zhu could break out of those holes, those aren't deliberately hard holds.
38:10So it's not, it's not, for me it's not a warning, meritoriously, meritorious warning,
38:16because it's not a specific hug, you know what I mean?
38:22Another round down.
38:25It's also not like Zhu's fighting off that little hold, you know what I mean?
38:28It's not a tough hold.
38:29But Zhu could easily fight that off and work it, but Zhu's content to work and rest in there as
38:33well,
38:33because he's kind of cruising.
38:34the producer is for news of this week,
38:36the Lex humorает做 give us殺rable promotion.
38:39This two rounds.
38:41Huh?
38:42He just didn't want Nein theiah to ban.
38:57Who more rounds?!
38:59Two more rounds.
39:00tonight from from zoo it's just one of the things he works on with pedro i think because you know
39:04pedro coming from that amateur system those straight punches are really a big part of the
39:08technical amateur school when you see zoo with those sharp one twos over the course of the night
39:16paulie are you comfortable with tim zoo cruising here or would you like to see him try and push it
39:21i think for this for the benefit of the promotion of the dispense fight if he pushed it and got
39:26a
39:26stoppage it would it would probably create more um more uh highlights more headlines so to speak but
39:34if he's cruising i can understand why maybe he's not trying to show too much before the spence fight
39:39he wants to work on things and maybe save for the spence fight because at least with zoo we get
39:42the
39:42benefit of seeing what we're going to see right a shot there from zoo with spence we don't get that
39:46benefit he's he doesn't he doesn't fight he doesn't he's not active we're just gonna have to find out
39:50on fight night what spence has left we don't know for all we know he's got nothing left you know
39:54so
39:54that's what makes it a fascinating thought you know he could have a lot left because obviously
39:58his resume is is very big it's bigger it's even bigger than zoos but we don't know what
40:02spence has left with with zoo okay we get the luxury of seeing it and we get to criticize we
40:06get the
40:07praise but at least zoo's making the effort here to to to be active and you know again i haven't
40:13seen
40:13him step it up but it's not because he can't i i notice i'm seeing a zoo who's content to
40:17cruise
40:19and i don't see it as lazy i see as maybe he's trying to work on some things
40:23he's trying to get the rounds in with the new trainer before the big showdown with spence
40:27but personally yeah i would like to see him push a little bit more
40:32there's plenty of people here at the venue who would love to see that as well
40:36there's plenty of people here at the venue who would love to see that as well it does work to
40:38the body
40:45doubles up that left hand is noria
40:52somebody's probing shots lead to a bigger shot and you see how zoo is working on the setups
41:01trying to punch and use all the angles to bring the various punches and show the various punch
41:06selection a different punch selection rather
41:15it's a good jab from the counter attempt as well a good jab from nuria yeah comes back with a
41:21couple of
41:21jabs does dennis noria once in a while know you let them know he's there you know and he says
41:26hey
41:26i'm still active i'm still trying here reaching out to the body zoo
41:30he's there you know and he's there you know and he's there you know and he's there you know and
41:40i'll tell you what the odds makers for the spence fight are gonna have nightmares because you don't
41:48know what's meant to get to get exactly you feel like there's more to zoo but he's not showing you
41:52so you don't you don't know how to really place him either yeah that inactivity of spence
42:02when he is there
42:03tim zoo
42:03is just making more question marks here with
42:07what has been a dominant performance
42:10doing
42:11doing
42:14doing
42:15doing
42:15doing
42:20so we will see the final round of this find between tim zoo and dennis
42:26maria
42:32the gingerly takes a seat does the visitor nine tough rounds
43:04there's a sharp jab there from zoo and trying to counter new york's counter
43:09just then comes up short with the right hand
43:15but again it's all reaction stuff it's not nothing with a lot of weight
43:26is he stepping up here do you think paulie like again you'd like to see it
43:30nothing to save it for now of course nuria at this point is in the last round and he's
43:35going to be determined to go the distance
43:44jabbing is zoo jabbing is nuria right hand too
43:49there's a bit more on those punches from zoo
43:59uppercut from nuria found the space for a very nice there he turns around a right hand too
44:05and zoo comes back with a right hand looks for an uppercut now shoves him
44:10noria and finds that right hand too and zoo is stepping towards uppercut from dennis noria
44:19two minutes left in the fight
44:23and then you see that mental pressure from zoo and he turns into physical when he puts the output there
44:30and he's rumbling forwards now with zoo
44:37he's getting rough as well it might here in wongong zoo to the body
44:47and the body again
44:51he felt that one just a bit
45:05and he's been looking for that right uppercut a few times this round
45:08he's been looking for that right uppercut a few times this round
45:11there's a chance for zoo to make him pay with the left hook
45:17and tim zoo's going to get this stoppage it'll have to be in the final minute of this fight
45:23i know you could just see a finish line at least for a moral victory to go to distance with
45:34tim zoo
45:34well it looked great on his resume i mean the refs got to leave him alone now the poor guy
45:39he's doing his best he's having a very rough day he's having a bad day as it is
45:47he leaps out with the left hook he's trying valiantly and now zoo comes forward
45:58he's going to go to the left hook he's going to go to the left hook he's going to go
45:59to the left
45:59uppercut from zoo
46:03uppercut again from zoo
46:07oh wild right hand misses you with 10 seconds left in this fight
46:12and there he goes
46:14i think i think noya's mouthpiece went five rolls back
46:17it's gone flying but it's gone the distance this one
46:23dominance from zoo who's back to the big time
46:32bloody but victorious on easter sunday and he was in cruise control throughout tim zoo
46:44a nasty cut himself a solid knockdown as well
46:52and senis noria well he goes the distance he makes it the ten rounds
47:00didn't look like much fun though no not for noria but for noria here in this fight tonight you know
47:05and i think maybe he learned himself a shot at me at somebody else haven't gotten this in this fight
47:12but when we're talking about shots
47:16paulie does this mean no more suspense it is time for errol spence yeah it absolutely is you know
47:22it absolutely is and you know the time for waiting is done that will be ready come the summer
47:27we'll see how zoo comes back out after this cut i'm sure there'll have to be some real time
47:32it may push the tentative date back we'll see because it is a pretty deep cut but that might
47:36will happen next well that is very exciting
47:43as we have a look at the highlights of 10 rounds
47:49of tim zoo v dennis noria overall what sort of a score do you give tim zoo i think you
47:56know tim put
47:57in a workman like blue collar performance i don't think personally he got out of second gear if i'm
48:04if i'm honest maybe in spots he might have touched third gear but if you were talking about a five
48:09gear car or five or six sports gear sports card which you know world class fighter you think you
48:13would think of typically compare them to i don't think zoo anywhere anywhere near the higher gears and
48:18he was never really forced to i would have liked to see him rev it just for the fun of
48:22it
48:22but you know maybe he's uh again looking to work on some things and and uh the dispense fight will
48:28give us the opportunity for him to to get up those higher gears because spence at his best spence
48:33forces a fast pace so zoo will have to match that as well well he's had 20 rounds now under
48:38pedro
48:38diaz is that enough for him to know who this version of tim zoo is i would say so it's
48:44gonna have to be
48:44you know you know the big fight is on the right you got two wins in a row you got
48:4820 rounds you got two
48:49fights but also 20 rounds right and uh i guess two terrible guys listen belacian is durable nerio was
48:54durable they're not errol spence but at the same time they're good enough to force you to work and
48:59to work on some things and you can clearly notice zoo working on things tonight he just he never really
49:04wanted to go up too many gears and we did reach the final bell
49:14it has been a dominant victory for tim zoo but it must be made official here in wollongong
49:20on easter sunday and to do exactly that here is our ring announcer stephen famous ladies and gentlemen
49:27time to make this one official let's have a round of applause for both of our boxers fantastic
49:33main event of the afternoon time to officially determine
49:37our winner and who becomes the new wbo oriental middleweight champion after 10 rounds of action
49:45the judges have the bout as follows all three judges will surloss leanne reid and john
49:51couchie have scored the bout 100 to 88 in favour of your winner the phoenix tim
50:03zoom
50:16well congratulations tim zoo a shutout victory against a very tough dennis nuria yeah yeah he's tough man hi
50:26i expected that you know 20 or no they're no joke so i think i had him a couple times
50:31i don't know
50:32he just didn't drop hey but yeah that was good that was good that was good rounds bro was that
50:38another
50:38case of you trying to get some rounds to learn some things and work on some things with your new
50:43team
50:44here today um that one wasn't actually i was trying to take him out i'll be honest with you
50:50uh he was just i don't know they're tough out of europe hey albania i didn't expect that man that's
50:56big respect
50:59yeah respect to the albanians man tough guys and tim it wasn't in a bad spot but
51:05another cut and it's a nasty one too hey this time we won with the cut so
51:11can't complain so it's all a learning experience and you would have learnt a lot i would think in this
51:17ring here today do you feel that you're ready for that step up that we've been talking about do you
51:23think that you're ready for errol spence look if i feel like i'm up for it man i feel like
51:28i'm up for
51:28it um this guy was tough you know no excuses but uh i think me and errol spence gonna be
51:34one hell of
51:35a fight you know it's a banger you know how i am i don't go take a backward step so
51:38if he wants to
51:39meet me at the front bring it on well we are live into the us as well do you have
51:45a message
51:46for errol spence and his team you know what they say catch the big fish let's go let's go fishing
51:53well we can't wait for that but a word on this crowd here in wollongong today a new place for
51:59you
51:59easter sunday and a and a big victory on a big card big respect man i've seen i've seen the
52:07support
52:07sammy goodman gets up here i'm a big uh big fan of his to be joining him on this beautiful
52:13night in
52:13wollongong on easter sunday kudos to you guys i'll be back we'll see you again soon congratulations
52:20tim zoo thank you
52:24tim zoo remains unbeaten in his native australia workmanlike 10 round decision win handing dennis
52:37nuria his first defeat and it does set up that showdown with former unified welterweight champion
52:45errol spence jr zoo pitching a shutout and setting up that summer showdown with spence and like paulie
52:56malignaggi alluded to he would like to have seen zoo maybe rev up maybe move into another gear i think
53:05after those wars those losses to the likes of murta zelly of sebastian fundora i don't know if zoo can
53:11ever go back to that well it's like i said i don't know if there's another gear to go to
53:15yeah and i uh
53:17again a victory dennis nuria i i don't know if we what did we learn about tim zoo in this
53:24fight there
53:24wasn't much to learn here's here's what i think i learned look it's hard to teach you know real veterans
53:31new things and i think he reverted back to what he always does and that's walk you down kind of
53:39take
53:39his time counter punch you know right there he did a good job against uh murraya today counter punch him
53:47but he just couldn't put them away couldn't put the combinations together and he couldn't sustain
53:52a three-minute attack round after round it was kind of the uppercut was there yeah the right hand
53:59but again there are levels to this sport nuria comes in unbeaten but against low-level opposition
54:05he he was never a threat to tim zoo and uh again zoo in a new market woolen gong
54:13maybe had a chance to put the pedal to the metal and finish the show or at least try to
54:17finish the show
54:18and again maybe very cognizant of the fact that i've got a big money fight with errol spence as you
54:24look
54:25at the compu box final stats one way traffic for tim zoo the jab was effective destroyed him in
54:32terms of power shots and huge advantage in terms of total punches landed uh an easy night at the
54:39office for tim zoo yeah i i think the the outlook is going to be a lot he's going to
54:44be a lot more
54:45focused and a lot train a lot harder for errol spence it's going to be a different tim zoo that
54:49you're going to see that i don't know i don't know if we can see a tim's a different tim
54:53zoo at this
54:53stage of the game the question i have is what kind of errol spence jr are we going to see
54:58he last
54:59fought in july of 2023 if they fight in the summer it'll be
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