Bakhram Murtazaliev may grow to be the subsequent star at 154 if he can clear out the division, beating the highest names which can be courageous sufficient to combat him.
The ten-year skilled Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) made a reputation for himself with hardcore boxing followers by destroying former WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu in three rounds final Saturday evening on the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
What IBF 154-lb champion Murtazaliev must do now could be defeat these fighters to say the throne within the division:
– Terence Crawford
– Sebastian Fundora
– Israil Madrimov
– Serhii Bohachuk
– Errol Spence
– Vergil Ortiz Jr.
Murtazaliev, 31, might want to work shortly to get these fighters to comply with combat earlier than he begins growing old out. The best way fighters keep away from one another, it may take Murtazaliev years earlier than he’d get an opportunity to combat most of these fighters. That’s beneath superb circumstances, with him profitable.
It’s unlikely that Crawford will settle for a combat with Murtazaliev as a result of he desires to ensure he doesn’t lose whereas ready for Canelo Alvarez to bless him. Initially, Crawford could have thought that it might be a chunk of cake for him to gather all of the belts at 154, however after his combat in opposition to Madrimov, he understands that it’not going to be the identical for him.
“We had the shock of Murtazaliev beating Tszyu. Now you understand that Murtazaliev is a really damaging and highly effective pressure inside the weight class. You might have a weight filled with highly effective and damaging forces,” stated Paulie Malignaggi to Probox TV, discussing IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev’s third-round knockout win over former WBO 154-lb champion Tim Tszyu final Saturday evening in Orlando.
If Murtazaliev can’t get the highest fighters to comply with face him, he’ll want to maneuver as much as 160 to get extra alternatives for necessary fights. His Excellency Turki Alalshikh may make issues simpler for him if he could make it worthwhile for the opposite high fighters at 154 to face Murtazaliev. He hasn’t stated something but about wanting to try this.
“You had tactical and exquisite boxing with Madrimov and Crawford. Which route are you going to go? I don’t know if Crawford desires to combat at 154 anymore as a result of there’s not sufficient star energy there to tickle his fancy. I believe Vergil Ortiz and Murtazaliev can be a collision of damaging powers.”
“If Murtazaliev goes on the market and beats all these guys. He’s not an amazing talker or very marketable, however guess what? He’s a nasty man. He beat up a complete weight class. Now you’ve bought a star in your fingers,” stated Chris Algieri. “For those who can combat and beat everyone, finally, everybody goes to concentrate.”
If it have been that straightforward for Murtazaliev to get the fights in opposition to the highest man at 154, he’d have accomplished it a very long time in the past, and he wouldn’t have wasted 10 years of his profession combating unknowns. However now that he’s crushed Tszyu, he’s prone to be handled like a leper by the opposite high fighters within the division.
“For those who’ve bought a man like Murtazaliev, who was combating unknown for his complete profession. He was taking step apart cash for a bunch of alternatives. He fights Tim Tszyu and blows him out of the water. That’s the way you grow to be a star.”
Murtazaliev hasn’t grow to be a real star, however he’s not less than now identified by the hardcore boxing fand after his destruction of Tszyu. What would pace up the method of turning Murtazaliev right into a star can be of Crawford agreed to combat him.
Once more, that’s unlikely to occur as a result of he realizes how good these fighters are at 154 now after his shut name in opposition to Madrimov, and he wont wish to take a fair greater danger in opposition to Murtazaliev.
