The Errol Spence Jr vs Tim Tszyu card has been bolstered with the addition of two former world champions.
Former welterweight champion, Spence Jr ends a three-year lay-off when he faces former super welterweight titlist, Tszyu in a middleweight clash in Australia on July 26.
Former titleholders Jermall Charlo and Stephen Fulton Jr will also feature on the card, it was announced on Wednesday.
Two-division world champion, Charlo scored a sixth round stoppage of Thomas Lamanna last May and will face Australia’s Koen Mazoudier.
Fellow two-weight world champion, Fulton Jr looks to bounce back from a unanimous decision defeat to O’Shaquie Foster in December, when he collides with Queensland native, Liam Wilson who is ranked at two with the WBO behind champion, Emanuel Navarrete, who also holds the IBF crown.
Spence will fight for the first time since a crushing ninth round defeat to Terence Crawford in 2023 and has since switched to Ronnie Shields after leaving long-time trainer, Derrick James.
‘The Truth’ admits he’s motivated to prove the doubters wrong when he faces Tszyu at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.
“I feel like I’ve got something [left],” the 36-year-old told All The Smoke Fight.
“I need some excitement.
“That’s why I wanted to go to Australia.
“People keep asking me, ‘why don’t you take a tune-up?’
“I don’t want a tune-up.
“I’ve never done it.
“I think they got me down on the odds. That excites me. That gets me pumped up.
“I love the doubts, because they had all the doubts with the Danny Garcia [fight], with the [Yordenis] Ugas [fight], they were saying I was a shell of myself.
“That just gets me more excited to show everybody I am who I say I am.”
Tszyu has home advantage heading into his showdown with the Texas native.
The 31-year-old has won twice since being dismantled by Sebastian Fundora in seven rounds of their rematch last July.
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