Tank Davis Backs Errol Spence Over Tim Tszyu in Sydney Return

Errol Spence Jr walks back into a ring Saturday at Sydney's Afterpay Arena for the first time in three years, and he's doing it as a slight favorite against Tim Tszyu. He's also picked up a notable backer: Gervonta 'Tank' Davis, the 30-0-1 lightweight star, threw his support behind Spence on social media midweek.

The number that matters here is the weight. This was originally booked as a 158lb catchweight, then Spence asked for two extra pounds and got them, pushing the fight up to 160. That's not a footnote. Spence built his entire résumé at welterweight, where he held the WBC, IBF and WBA belts and stayed unbeaten until Terence Crawford stopped him in the ninth round. This is his first serious assignment above 147.

Crawford, for the record, has kept climbing since. He's 42-0 with 31 knockouts and beat Canelo Álvarez by unanimous decision in his last outing, now sitting at super middleweight. Spence, at 36, has been stuck in neutral since that loss handed him the only defeat of his career.

Tszyu's Rough Stretch

Tszyu's story is messier. The 31-year-old Australian has dropped three of his last six, and the two he lost worst still sting. Sebastian Fundora—now the WBC super welterweight champ at 24-1-1 after stopping Keith Thurman in six—edged and battered him in 2024. Then Bakhram Murtazaliev finished him in 2025. Murtazaliev has since lost his own belt, dropping a majority decision to Josh Kelly, but the damage to Tszyu's momentum was done.

So this is a rebuild fight for both men, just from different directions. Tszyu wants to prove he still belongs at world level and eventually get back to 154. His last meaningful win came against Brian Mendoza on points in 2023, which tells you how long the road back has been.

The Matchup on Paper

The read on paper is simple: Spence is the sharper technician, and most people expect his skill to hold up even after the layoff. Tszyu's path is equally simple to describe, harder to execute—drown Spence in volume, set a brutal pace, and see whether three years of inactivity has hollowed out the older man.

Davis clearly thinks the ring rust won't matter. Tank sided with Spence publicly, and given his own knockout-heavy 28-finish body of work, his opinion carries some weight with fans. The fight streams live on DAZN and DAZN on Prime. Whoever's right about the layoff question probably wins.