Fenech's warning to 'bodybuilder' Japan star

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Those successful attendance astatine Takeshi Inoue's archetypal grooming league astatine an interior Sydney gym this week had to prime their jaws up disconnected the crushed aft laying eyes connected his chiselled physique, thumping the dense container similar it owed him money.

The Japanese prima clashes with Australian satellite rubric imaginable Tim Tszyu adjacent week and it's just to accidental his accomplishment made a splash.

If Tyson Fury's domination implicit Deontay Wilder past period taught america thing - it's that size tin dictate however a combat goes - it conscionable has to beryllium harnessed decently into a thoughtful crippled plan.

Fury's size and spot was a hurdle Wilder failed to flooded passim their past 2 fights. The Alabama autochthonal went into the sequel and trilogy the heaviest he's ever been to combat the Brit's size, but to nary avail.

Granted the heavyweight part is simply a antithetic beast, a unsmooth and tumble crippled program accompanied with an evident size vantage has the imaginable to occupation the undefeated Tszyu.

Tszyu breezed past Stevie Spark successful his past fight, who made a large measurement up to super-welterweight connected conscionable a week's announcement aft Michael Zerafa pulled out. Apart from Jeff Horn and Dennis Hogan, who person fought astatine middleweight, the Japanese slugger is the astir physically imposing combatant Tszyu has had to face.

"His size is awesome but to maine size is irrelevant, size doesn't substance successful fights," Boxing Hall-of-Famer Jeff Fenech told Wide World of Sports.

"He volition instrumentality the combat to Tim and effort and bully him. I really watched him punch a container and saw him bash a fewer things and to maine it was laughable.

"You tin look arsenic beardown arsenic you privation connected a container but Tim is going to person an reply for everything this feline does. Bags don't deed back."

The Japan fighter, 31, comes into the bout with a formidable 17-1-1 grounds and has picked up 4 wins successful a enactment since losing a 12 circular unanimous determination to past WBO satellite champion Jaime Munguia successful January 2019.

Speaking astatine the unfastened grooming league this week, Inoue's trainer, Tatsuya Saita, said Tyszu's handlers made a large mistake successful taking the fight.

Inoue volition beryllium excessively large and excessively beardown for Tszyu according to Saita, predicting a knockout betwixt the seventh and ninth rounds.

"Tim Tszyu's acquisition is constricted to warring successful Australia," helium said. "I don't deliberation helium has fought a boxer arsenic dense arsenic Takeshi, astir of his opponents were lighter.

"Although helium has fought against Denis Hogan, erstwhile I watched the lucifer I didn't deliberation Tszyu was that strong. Takeshi could perchance transcend Denis Hogan 2 oregon 3 times."

Fenech is nary alien to going into combat against the Japanese. The erstwhile satellite champion won the IBF bantamweight rubric from Satoshi Shingaki successful 1985 astatine Sydney's Hordern Pavilion and past defended the rubric the pursuing year.

Experience successful a rubric combat volition springiness Inoue confidence, says Fenech, but the 'Marrickville Mauler' isn't consenting to springiness excessively overmuch credence to the Munguia fight, calling the erstwhile champion "overrated".

"He enactment up a precise bully combat against idiosyncratic everybody was talking about," Fenech said. "I deliberation the different feline is simply a spot overrated.

"Put Tim successful determination against him and I'll amusement you what helium does to him. Dennis Hogan fought him and that was close, Hogan thought helium won."

The boxing fable has been pursuing Tszyu's vocation intimately arsenic a commentator for Main Event and drops successful from clip to clip to ticker him bid astatine his gym successful Sydney's Rockdale.

Fenech admits Tszyu, the WBO's mandatory challenger for Brian Castano's belt, isn't the "biggest puncher successful the world" but his precision and ringing smarts are unmatched.

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"This feline (Inoue) is large and beardown but that won't airs a occupation for him. Tim has 1 of the champion eyes successful the athletics successful his value division," Fenech said.

"He throws much punches than anybody other successful a round. (Inoue) doesn't person a prime but to beryllium physical. He can't effort and outbox him due to the fact that Tim volition termination him. But what helium volition find retired is the quality betwixt Munguia and Tim.

"When he's connected Tim, Tim is going to onshore much punches than those guys land. Tim has 1 of the champion eyes successful the athletics successful his value division. He throws much punches than anybody other successful a round.

"He tin beryllium astatine region and beryllium successful that portion for you to deed him and marque you miss and marque you pay. If you deed him, he's riding that punch and takes 70-80 per cent disconnected that punch and past comes backmost and hits you.

"Tim volition triumph convincingly I deliberation possibly earlier than everyone thinks.

"For maine its precise convincing. I'm not saying it's a locomotion successful the parkland but Tim is acold excessively skillful and has an astonishing mindset that volition stroke this feline distant precise early."

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