Tim Tszyu-Anthony Velazquez: The week that was

To the last of those one of Velazquez’s team responded “Are you on weight, fat boy?”, but for all of the understandable frustration they would have felt at their delay, they may also have been heartened to learn that Tszyu’s preparations have also been imperfect. Owing to his new trainer Pedro Diaz’s commitments to Norair “Noel” Mikaeljan’s WBC cruiserweight title fight with Badou Jack on Saturday in LA, one Stefan Hubert was scheduled to fly in from Belgrade, Serbia, to oversee the final days of Tszyu’s build-up. Hubert, however, is yet to receive a visa, so when Tszyu was doing pad work on Friday it was instead with Khalil Saab, who worked with him while he remained an amateur.