Still, Tszyu didn’t think twice about agreeing to face Spence at 160 pounds, two above their contracted catch weight of 158.

“I just wanted him here,” Tszyu told The Ring. “I wanted the fight to happen. I’m not a diva. It’s whatever, man, whatever. I’m an easy guy.”

The former WBO junior middleweight champion didn’t expect Spence to withdraw from his first fight in almost three years if Tszyu declined his request. Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) just didn’t want to afford Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) any rationalizations for losing their 12-round fight at Afterpay Arena in Tszyu’s hometown of Sydney, Australia.

“I just don’t want any excuses,” Tszyu said. “I want him here, refreshed, rejuvenated, make sure he’s not struggling with weight, make sure everything’s on point, because I wanna beat up the best Errol Spence.”

Spence, 36, hasn’t fought since Terence Crawford demolished him in their long-anticipated welterweight title unification fight in July 2023. Crawford dropped Spence three times and stopped the southpaw from DeSoto, Texas, in the ninth round of a stunningly one-sided, anticlimactic clash at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

A reflective Spence suggested during the buildup for his fight against Tszyu that he knew he would lose to Crawford based on how his training camp went. Tszyu wonders how this training camp unfolded as well because Spence, the fighter who moved up two divisions, requested a higher weight limit so close to their fight.

“I was notified on Saturday, whether or not I would accept the change,” Tszyu said. “And apparently it was because of he was supposed to come [to Australia] a bit earlier, but now he needs a little bit of extra time, because he’s flying in a bit later, to adapt to the change. So, I don’t know. Whatever they say, whatever, man. For me, it was like, ‘All right, whatever.’”

Despite Spence's long layoff, the former IBF, WBA and WBC welterweight champ has been installed by most sportsbooks as a slight favorite to defeat Tszyu.

Though much more active, the 31-year-old Tszyu has suffered damaging technical-knockout losses to former IBF junior middleweight champ Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-1, 17 KOs) and WBC champ Sebastian Fundora (24-1-1, 16 KOs) in two of his past five fights.

Tszyu has recorded back-to-back 10-round, unanimous points victories over Anthony Velazquez (18-1-1, 15 KOs) and Denis Nurja (20-1, 9 KOs) since he declined to answer the bell for the eighth round of his rematch with Fundora last July 19 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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