Tim Tszyu's camp have averted crisis and hired an emergency new corner man after conceding they needed "an uppercut" for allowing their superstar charge to lose his world title in controversial fashion to Sebastian Fundora. Team Tszyu are flying the highly respected Joe Quiambao from New York to Florida after Tszyu's career-long cut man Mark Gambin was unable to make the trip from Sydney after suffering acute appendicitis. Gambin copped heavy flak for being unable to stem the flow of blood from a gruesome head wound sustained late in the second round of the first defeat of Tszyu's career, to Fundora in March.
After being in Tszyu's corner for his entire 24-bout professional career, Gambin had been desperate to be in Orlando when the 29-year-old takes on undefeated Russian Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF super-welterweight belt on Sunday. But Tszyu's manager Glen Jennings said that was simply not an option after undergoing an appendectomy on Tuesday. "Go to America and you might die in the plane," Jennings told AAP of the dire warning doctors issued Gambin.
"I spoke to him a few hours after the operation and he was in recovery and the poor bastard was shattered. Just shattered. "He's like 'f***'.
And I said, 'Mate, just chill. It's not going to be a problem. We'll get someone to come in and replace you, but we wish you were here.
" An SOS was swiftly sent for Quiambao, whose vast experience includes being on hand for former lightweight world champ Teofimo Lopez when Tszyu's ex-.