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Darren Walton

'We needed an uppercut': team Tszyu's frank confession

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.

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