Key points:
- Fight week begins with Grand Arrivals at a Sydney Harbour waterfront venue, followed by open workouts, a final press conference, and weigh-ins
- Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) and Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) meet July 25 at Sydney’s Afterpay Arena, contested at 160 pounds
- Tszyu headlines at home for the first time since climbing into the sport’s top ranks and has never lost on Australian soil
- Spence returns for the first time in nearly three years since his 2023 loss to Terence Crawford
Fight week for Tim Tszyu and Errol Spence Jr. is officially underway, with No Limit Boxing opening a full schedule of public events to media ahead of their July 25 middleweight clash at Sydney’s Afterpay Arena.
The build-up starts with Grand Arrivals at one of Sydney’s waterfront venues overlooking the harbour, giving fans the first look at both fighters in the same city. Public workouts follow the next day, running from morning through early afternoon against the same harbour backdrop, before the schedule moves into the final press conference and, later, the official weigh-ins and face-offs. A build-up spread across a week has the rhythm of a race meeting, arrivals first, then practice, then the serious business, and both reward the patient study behind F1 betting.
Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) headlines in Sydney for the first time since climbing into the sport’s upper ranks, and has never lost on home soil. He enters off back-to-back wins since his 2024 rematch loss to Sebastian Fundora, most recently a decision over Denis Nurja in April. “It’s an honor to headline the greatest fight card ever assembled in Australia,” Tszyu said when the fight was announced. “Errol Spence Jr. is a legend of this sport, one of the greatest to ever do it, but on July 25, I get to take him out once and for all.”
Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) returns for the first time in nearly three years, having last fought in a lopsided loss to Terence Crawford in 2023. The two-division jump to middleweight, and a late change in the contracted weight up to a full 160 pounds, has added extra scrutiny to how Spence looks physically after such a long layoff.
The build-up hasn’t been entirely smooth. Spence skipped a scheduled satellite TV interview earlier this month that left Tszyu, his promoter and trainer Jeff Fenech waiting at a Sydney studio, and he also declined to shake Tszyu’s hand at their press conference in Las Vegas back in May. Tszyu addressed it directly ahead of fight week. “Spence has definitely disrespected everyone. But we’re ready for this fight. We’re fine,” he said.
The undercard also features former champion Stephen Fulton Jr. against Australia’s Liam Wilson, plus unbeaten Olympian Callum Peters. The event streams live on Kayo and Main Event in Australia, and on DAZN and Prime Video worldwide. British viewers taking those worldwide feeds are used to following Australian sport at unsociable hours, which is also when in play cricket betting markets are at their busiest.