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8.03PM: TSZYU ON WALKOUT STANDOFF

Nikita Tszyu has flipped the script in the lead-up up to his super welterweight clash against Dylan Biggs, hiding his intentions shoul;d Biggs stick to his word and refuse to walk to the ring first tonight.

“I’ve said this from the start, I couldn’t care less if I walk out first (or) walk out second,” he said.

“I’m listening to the call. When MainEvent and Fox Sports tell me to walk out I’ll walk out.

“That’s never been an issue. He’s the one that’s been creating all this drama, all this nonsense.

“I feel like it’s their tactic to try and get in my head, but they’re just burning themselves out.”

7.24PM: CHOC’S WORDS OF WISDOM TO BIGGS

Anthony Mundine has warned Dylan Biggs to “stay in his lane” as controversy continues to swirl over who should walk second to the ring for tonight’s main event.

Biggs’ team believes he should be given the honour of walking second as the current Australian champion.

But as the bigger name and the A-side of the promotion, Tszyu’s camp demands he walks second.

Asked for his thoughts, Mundine – who walked second when he fought then-Australian middleweight champion Marc Bargero in 2001 – said Biggs should know where he stands.

“Nikita’s given him the opportunity to put him on a stage like this,” Mundine said from ringside in Newcastle. “It’s an opportunity to catapult his career and popularity within the sport.

“He’s gotta know who he is and stay in his lane. And that’s the B-side lane.

“That’s just that.”

6.57PM: ‘I MISS HIS VOICE, I MISS HIS HUGS’

Mark Schleibs has broken down in tears talking about the son he hasn’t seen in nine months following his contender for knockout of the year against Shamal Ram Anuj.

The Melbourne fighter landed a beautiful right hand on Anuj’s chin in the fifth round, sending the Fijian slumping into the corner.

Referee Les Fear didn’t bother with a count as Schleibs found the nearest camera and shouted, “I love you Oscar”.

Speaking afterwards, Schleibs revealed more details about the heartache he has been going through.

“Nine months without my kid, crying every day before training,” the 30-year-old said through tears. “My mum in and out of the psych ward, looking after her.

“It’s a lot of relief. There’s a lot of pressure.

“We risk it all to fail and succeed.”

Schleibs proudly showed off the ‘World’s Coolest Dad’ hat his son, Oscar, gave to him for Father’s Day, before sending him a message.

“I love you, Oscar, I hope you’re proud of me, son, because as long as you love me I’m always going to be a world champion,” he said. “I miss his voice. I miss his hugs.

“It kills me. This win is only temporary. I’m going to miss him tomorrow, I’m going to cry about him tomorrow, it’s the same old shit.

“Until I get some money behind me, I just hope this inspires all fathers who are going through what I’m going through to give them strength to keep going on.

“Our boys and our daughters are waiting on the other side.”

6.04PM: PUNTER’S CLOSE CALL WITH TSZYU

Nothing much phases Nikita Tszyu.

None of the personal attacks, or the drama over who walks first tonight gets under his skin.

It’s water off a duck’s back.

But, mention his dogs, and his mood changes abruptly. Lucifer, Hunter and Carlos are off limits.

That was clear at Monday’s press conference, when Tszyu thought Dylan Biggs was having a crack at his husky, Lucifer.

“No one messes with my dogs,” Tszyu told this masthead. “My dogs are beautiful. No one messes with them.”

One poor dog owner found that out the hard way earlier this year.

Just a week after stopping Jack Brubaker in his pay-per-view headline debut, Tszyu – still sporting a nasty shiner from a head clash – was at the dog park with his French Bulldog Carlos.

“Carlos started humping this other dog, but this dog was twice as big as him – it was a staffy – so I thought it was fine,” Tszyu said. “But the owner got really pissed off and nearly kicked Carlos.

“He had this rescue dog, a big Staffy, and I just had this little French Bulldog, full of energy, and he tried to kick Carlos.

“I snapped, I was triggered.

“I was about to grab him by the neck, before I remembered I’m a professional athlete. So I just screamed at him for a little bit.

“He would’ve been like, ‘what the hell, this kid with a bruised eye is trying to fight me over a dog’ and he eventually walked off.”

4.44PM: TSZYU’S LATEST CHARLO SETBACK

A potential world title showdown between Tim Tszyu and Jermell Charlo has taken another hit after the American this week vacated his IBF super-welterweight belt rather than face his mandatory challenger Bakhram Murtazaliev.

The move leaves Charlo holding just the WBC and WBA belts, while Tszyu is the WBO world champion.

Meanwhile, Murtazaliev will likely fight Jack Culcay for the vacant IBF title.

Tszyu was scheduled to fight Charlo for all four belts early this year before the American injured his hand, then moved up two weight classes for a big-money bout with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.

Tszyu still wants to fight Charlo, but will set his sights on fighting the winner of Murtazaliev and Culcay next year first.

“We still want Charlo, but vacating the IBF title indicates to me that there’s not much desire to fight,” Tszyu’s manager Glenn Jennings told this masthead. “If the guy doesn’t want to fight, he doesn’t want to fight.

“Tim and I spoke about it this morning and I just said to keep on letting him know we want the fight, and Tim sent him a message this morning.

“Tim’s a fighter, the rest of them are hiding, and we have to pull them out of their holes.”

Charlo vacating is a setback in the short-term, but if Tszyu can unify the WBO and IBF titles, he’ll be perfectly positioned for a big-money bout with Charlo in the future, provided Charlo doesn’t move up to middleweight.

“Charlo says he only wants big fights, and Tim is by far the biggest fight left at 154 pounds,” Jennings said. “We’ll go after the winner of Murtazaliev and Culcay. We want the belts.”

Tszyu plans on fighting three times next year, and is hoping to defend the WBO title, possibly against Erickson Lubin, in Las Vegas in March – the same weekend as the NRL’s double header in Sin City.

The 26-2 Lubin’s only two losses were in world title fights against Charlo and Sebastian Fundora.

“There’s no better launch pad for Tim into the American market than that weekend,” Jennings said. “Most likely a defence of the WBO title.

“Lubin would be perfect.”

BIGGS TIPPED TO SNAP TSZYU FAMILY’S STREAK

– Peter Badel

Unheralded champion Dylan Biggs will pull off a Queensland Origin-style boilover by breaking the Tszyu family’s incredible 47-fight winning streak on Australian soil.

That’s the prediction of Nikita Tszyu’s own No Limit stablemate Issac Hardman, who believes the talent and technical purity of Biggs will prevail in the pay-per-view blockbuster in Newcastle on Wednesday night.

Biggs (10-0, 7KO) will put his Australian super welterweight title on the line against Tszyu (7-0, 6K0) when the unbeaten young guns throw down in what shapes as the domestic fight of the year.

Biggs must not only overcome Nikita. The all-action Queenslander must also conquer the most formidable track record in Australian boxing history.

The Tszyu trinity of father Kostya and his sons, world champion Tim and rising star Nikita, has won all 47 fights it has contested in Australia, while the famous boxing family is 11-0 in Newcastle.

However, fellow Queenslander Hardman believes the “Beaudesert Storm” will rain on the Tszyu parade and inflict the first loss of New South Welshman Nikita’s promising career in an Origin-style showdown.

“I am with No Limit, they are my promoters, so they won’t like hearing this … but Dylan Biggs gets Nikita,” said Hardman, who will face England’s Troy Coleman as the co-main event on the Fox Sports-No Limit card.

“Dylan and myself are the big hitters from Queensland and we’re going down to NSW to upset the locals in ‘Tszyu-castle’.

“I would love for Nikita to brain Dylan and put him out unconscious because Dylan beat my best mate Dan Hill to win the Australian title earlier this year.

“I am friendly with Nikita and Tim and Team Tszyu are a great, professional crew but Dylan Biggs is f–king good.

“I see it going two ways.

“Nikita is super explosive and powerful and he has to get the job done within one to four rounds.

“If not, then Dylan’s maturity, fitness and boxing IQ will shine through.

“Either Nikita gets him out early or Dylan wins a decision but I am edging towards Biggs.”

At 21, Biggs is Australia’s youngest champion who underlined his status as one of rising stars of the sport in July when he hammered Hill in an eight-round war to snatch the domestic super welterweight title.

However, Tszyu, 25, produced the finest win of his career in August when he stopped Jack Brubaker in his pay-per-view debut after he withstood a monster right hand that could have finished him in the third round.

“This is where I get to show the Australian public what I can really do,” Nikita said. “This is the big moment where I make it or break it.”

Biggs said Tszyu 3.0 was for the first time facing a dangerous opponent with no fear of the famous surname.

“His past opponents have quit,” Biggs said. “They turn up on the night but they don’t turn up to win. They are afraid.

“The show, the promotion and bright lights get to them but I’m different.

“There’s no quit in me. I have the numbers. I have the title.

“A win here slingshots my career to the next stage … I’m not losing my belt.”

Biggs’s manager Brendon Smith is predicting an all-out boxing war and doesn’t believe the 10-round title fight will go the distance.

“Both these boys talk about boxing skill but there will be fireworks, 100 per cent,” he said.

“There will be moments in this fight when they are full-on exchanging and going blow for blow.

“Nikita has great power but I have never seen Dylan wobbled or hurt. He has a great chin.

“It will come down to hunger and who steps up when it matters most.

“I believe Dylan wants it most.”

Originally published as Nikita Tszyu vs. Dylan Biggs: All the news and updates live from ‘TszyuCastle’