Errol Spence Jr. will end a three-year layoff to face Tim Tszyu this summer in Australia, Premier Boxing Champions announced Thursday.
Spence vs. Tszyu will take place in the afternoon on Sunday, July 26, at an undetermined location. The timing means the bout will air on prime time Saturday night in the U.S. on Amazon Prime pay-per-view.
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Spence (28-1, 22 KOs), a former unified welterweight champion, has not fought since being stopped by Terence Crawford in July 2023 in a one-sided fight for the undisputed welterweight championship.
Spence, 36, was rumored to take on WBC welterweight champion Sebastian Fundora for much of 2024, but those talks were not finalized. In the interim, Spence has been dealing with a legal challenge from his ex-coach, Derrick James, who claims he was not compensated fairly for some of the fights the pair worked together.
Tszyu (27-3, 18 KOs) defeated Brian Mendoza to win the vacant WBO super welterweight title in October 2023. He was upset by late-replacement Fundora in March 2024 and then lost again for the world title after being brutally knocked out by Bakhram Murtazaliev in October of that year.
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Tszyu has fought four times since, winning three bouts against low-level opposition and losing a rematch with Fundora last July.
After losing to Fundora a second time, Tszyu left longtime trainer Igor Goloubev to join Pedro Diaz in Miami. The duo worked together for two fights that Tszyu won. The Australian, however, recently parted ways with Diaz and will be trained by the legendary Jeff Fenech for his July bout against Spence.
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