Tszyu speaks to the media after his win over Dylan Biggs in Newcastle
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00:00 Nikita, you said that during camp you'd leveled up threefold. That was quite evident tonight.
00:06 You composed yourself well, actually matured beyond your years. You establish that to camp
00:11 or just the progress in general?
00:12 It was not part of the plan to get dropped, I might say. But yeah, I feel like I improved
00:20 a little bit. I did a little bit better. There's still a lot of things to work on. There's
00:25 still a lot of... I had to compose myself a little bit more. I was a little rattled
00:34 in that fight. But overall I give myself a C+.
00:41 What went through your head when you were on the campus in that first round?
00:47 Honestly, shit. That was the first word that came to my head. But then I just knew, okay,
00:54 you got hit. It's not the end of the world. It's only round one. The party's just begun.
01:02 And yeah, get your shit together. Let's keep going.
01:08 How does it feel you finished that round? I don't know if on top, but you finished it
01:12 pretty strong that first round.
01:14 Honestly, I don't even remember.
01:16 Yeah, it was good.
01:18 Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did a little bit better at the end. And what time was the knockout?
01:24 Was it the first minute? First two minutes?
01:26 About a minute.
01:27 Yeah, I think about halfway through.
01:28 Yeah. It always happens. I always get hit with a shot first. First round, it's always a big
01:36 shot that comes in.
01:37 It was his gashame.
01:38 Yeah. Belbin got me with a really good right hook. Bommer got me with two good right hands.
01:47 Brubecker, I don't know if he got me with one.
01:49 He did.
01:50 He did?
01:51 Yeah.
01:51 Yeah, he did.
01:52 Thanks.
01:53 He's here somewhere. Jack's here.
01:55 Yeah, that's right. And yeah, and it's just a big shot.
02:01 Did you feel like you were just too strong for him? It seemed like when he tried to get
02:04 into a trade with you, you were just way too strong.
02:07 It didn't feel like I was way too strong, but I felt that... I just felt a weakness in his
02:16 core, in his upper body. And I feel like I could have kind of pushed him around a little
02:20 bit when we got in close. But there was never a thought that, "Yeah, I'm stronger than him.
02:25 I can destroy him physically." I was always just trying to catch him as he was trying
02:32 to catch me.
02:33 Did you know that he was pretty badly hurt into that fifth round? It kind of seemed like
02:40 he was holding his hands low. I don't know if it was his body.
02:42 Oh, well, after round four when I hit him with 50 punches in the side of the head, I
02:48 kind of figured that he's hurt. So yeah, maybe. But I didn't notice the hand that, not at
02:53 all.
02:54 What did you call the saying to react to fight?
02:58 "Round one, stay composed. It's okay. It's just the first round. Breathe, breathe. Stay
03:08 relaxed. Start boxing. Stop trading with him. Just box smart."
03:14 And then when the mouth guard came out, my uncle was like, "Why the hell did you stop?
03:21 You should have kept going. What's wrong with you?"
03:23 Your grandpa as well.
03:25 Yeah, that was a little bit of a missed attempt by me. But I learned.
03:30 You said in the post-fight interview with Ben Damon that it was a hurdle. But speaking
03:35 to you and watching the lead up for him, it felt more like a mountain that you had to
03:38 climb, a personal mountain. Is that fair?
03:40 I was climbing Kosciuszko.
03:42 Yeah, I thought so.
03:43 Now I'm at the top of Kosciuszko and now we're looking for the next mountain to climb.
03:48 Unfortunately, it's not in Australia. But yeah, I don't know where I was going with
03:52 that.
03:53 Glenn, did you panic in the first?
03:55 No, I really didn't. He was clear-eyed. There was no panic. He got up straight away and
04:00 like you said, shit. Much like Timo was, you see that little shit moment?
04:05 He did get me with a shot in the third round, I think. No, not because I was straight right
04:10 as well. That kind of rattled me and my legs kind of got a little bit dizzy for a second.
04:15 But yeah, he didn't capitalise on it. Same as Bommer. Bommer got me with a good shot
04:21 but didn't capitalise on it.
04:23 Why do you think that was? Why do you think he didn't capitalise when he had that opportunity?
04:28 Maybe he just didn't sense it. Maybe my facial expressions there didn't show that I was
04:33 hurt or something. But yeah, maybe I just got a good poker face.
04:37 Glenn said he didn't think you were hurt when you were dropped in the first round.
04:40 Yeah. It wasn't that I was hurt. I was just rocked. He got me with a very clean shot there
04:47 and just kind of buckled my legs. Harder than the shot he got me with in the first sparring
04:53 though. The first sparring that we had, that was just a tap and I was just off balance.
04:59 But that was a good shot.
05:00 - I'm not joking with that. - Yeah.