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Nikita Tszyu has admitted he thought back to his brother Tim’s fight against Terrell Gausha when he was knocked down by Dylan Biggs.
Biggs made an explosive start to the pair’s super welterweight title bout, knocking Tszyu down in the opening seconds, before Tszyu steadied, eventually running out a winner via TKO.
Tszyu admitted he was “rocked” by Biggs’ shot, which knocked him down as the Newcastle crowd went berserk.
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He revealed he thought about his older brother’s fight against Gausha last year, where Tim Tszyu recovered from an early knockdown to claim a unanimous decision win.
“He (Biggs) caught me with a shot that I just didn’t see,” he said.
“I’m surprised that I kind of recovered in the time that I did. From the very start, that kind of punch was something to fear and something to watch out for. He was dangerous from the very start.
“As soon as I was getting up off the canvas, I was just like, ‘Shit, that was a good shot’.
“But I knew I had to stay composed, stay disciplined and push through. My brother did it with Gausha, so there was no excuse for me not to do it.”
Incredibly, Tszyu almost evened up the first round after a sensational immediate recovery. He said he felt he got on top of Biggs midway through the second round “once (his) lab started landing”.
“Halfway through the second round I felt that he was already gassing,” he said.
“He was starting to move backwards more, he wasn’t exchanging with me as much. I noticed in his previous fights that when he gets tired he starts moving backwards and he starts kind of picking off pot shots from a distance.
“So from there, I knew I had to kind of just set traps on him and kind of fake him to attack and hit him as he attacked.
“It wasn’t so much about being cautious with my offence, it was being more focused on defence.
“I knew that his right hand was a good shot. It was a straight shot that comes down the middle, so we were planning on making use of that and hitting as he was hitting.
“It took me a while to get it going but eventually I got going.”
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