Tim Tsyzu's boxing career has been left in tatters after undefeated Russian champion Bakhram Murtazaliev handed him a beatdown of the highest order in the pair's IBF super welterweight world title fight Sunday in Orlando.

Bakhram Murtazaliev spent years waiting to get a shot at the IBF junior middleweight championship before finally winning the title in April. On Saturday night, he got a statement win in his first title defense, battering Tim Tszyu for a third-round TKO.

Tim Tszyu was talking such big, indeed great things going into last night's fight with the somewhat little-known Bakhram Murtazaliev; how he was back after