Properly-respected Cuban coach Pedro Diaz will now practice Tim Tszyu at Mundo Boxing in Miami, Florida. The previous WBO junior middleweight champion Tszyu (25-3, 18 KOs) is switching issues up after dropping three out of his final 4 fights since 2024.
Tszyu, 30, is coming off a seventh-round stoppage loss to Sebastian Fundora of their rematch on July 19, 2025, in Las Vegas. For that struggle and all of his earlier ones throughout his profession, Tim was skilled by Igor Goloubev.
The Cuban Professor Impact
After Tszyu’s loss to Fundora, he reportedly parted methods with Goloubev and underwent a whole restructuring of his workforce. He’s now added the nice Cuban coach Pedro Diaz. It is smart for Tim to make modifications, as he’d gone 1-3 since final yr and been stopped in two of the fights.
Diaz coached the Cuban nationwide workforce by 4 Olympic Video games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004).
Pedro Diaz has labored with these fighters
Felix SavónGuillermo RigondeauxTeofilo StevensonSixto SoriaAdolfo HortaArmando MartinezJuan Carlos LemusJoel CasamayorYuriorkis GamboaOdlanier SolisJulio GonzalezHéctor VinentYan Barthelemy
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It’s questionable whether or not coach Pedro Diaz will be capable to make the drastic modifications wanted for Tim Tszyu to return to his outdated kind. He’s 30 years outdated now and soaked up quite a lot of heavy punishment in his first struggle with Fundora on March 30, 2024. He misplaced that struggle by a 12-round break up resolution.
Tszyu additionally took a beating in his third-round knockout defeat in opposition to IBF 154-lb champion Bakhram Murtazaliev on October 19, 2024. He bought knocked down 4 instances within the struggle, and arguably ought to have been pulled out within the second spherical.
With all of the younger expertise at 154, it’s going to be troublesome for Tszyu to discover a place the place he can win a world title. Even at his finest, Tszyu was struggling in opposition to fighters like Terrell Gausha and Tony Harrison.
These fighters aren’t related in right this moment’s prime echelon of the junior middleweight division. It’s improved dramatically within the final yr.
Tim Tszyu finds a brand new house.⁰⁰The former tremendous welterweight titleholder has joined forces with Miami-based world champion coach Pedro Diaz.#ozboxing #boxing #tszyu #diaz pic.twitter.com/76EJWB6sxO
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