Tim Tszyu defends his WBO super welterweight world championship against Brian Mendoza on the Gold Coast

The best in class. Rated highest among your peers. The champion.When the 28-year-old meets American Brian Mendoza on the Gold Coast on Sunday, October 15, he will enter the ring as the WBO world champion.

Mendoza said his journey to being a fully-fledged world champion would be his very own Rocky story having fought his "way back from obscurity", and it is that he will bring to the fight.Contrary to the standard fare of pre-fight madness and amidst the intense heat of the open-air presser at a major shopping centre on the glitter strip, there has been no animosity between the pair in the build-up to this fight.

Aside from the fact that those long-range jabs are the only ones Charlo appears willing to throw against Tszyu, having made every excuse under the sun to avoid his obligation to meet the Australian in the ring, Tszyu has done everything asked of him to get into the position he now occupies.But there is still that nagging feeling that Tszyu needs to earn his belt in the ring. The proper way."I watched him last night and, he's got it," promoter George Rose told ABC Sport.

Sure, against Ocampo, it was Tszyu's exploratory left-right combination to the head that initially rocked the Mexican early, before a straight right down the pipe felled him for the first time. "We're hoping for a good clean fight and if it is a good clean fight, I think it confidently goes Tim Tszyu's way."

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