Tszyu Beats Nurja, Targets Spence Bout

Tim Tszyu secured a unanimous decision victory over Denis Nurja on Sunday night at the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong, Australia, positioning the former light middleweight champion for a potential high-stakes showdown with Errol Spence Jr. this summer. The 10-round win, a dominant performance marked by Tszyu's sharp jab and technical control, has fueled discussions of a matchup with the inactive American, who has not competed since his 2023 defeat to Terence Crawford.

Tszyu, 31, improved to 24-3 with the victory, rebounding from losses to Sebastian Fundora and Bakhram Murtazaliev, both of which occurred in the United States. All three of his professional defeats have come on American soil, making a stateside bout with Spence a chance to reverse that trend. Immediately after the fight, Tszyu called out the former unified welterweight champion, framing the potential clash as a generational shift. In an interview with Brian Custer, he referenced Fundora's sixth-round knockout of Keith Thurman last month, saying, "Look what happened with Thurman. For me, Errol Spence is sort of in that generation, and that's what I want to do and expect to do against him."