'Always supporting me no matter what': Wounded Tszyu speaks amid calls to axe team

A wounded Tim Tszyu has emerged from Sunday's brutal defeat, giving a vow to return to boxing's biggest stage.

The Aussie fighter posted a video to his Instagram on Monday, a day after being knocked down four times by Bakhram Murtazaliev in an Orlando mauling not many saw coming.

It was Tszyu's second loss in a row and the 29-year-old has fallen from the verge of unifying the super welterweight division, to being potentially blacklisted from American fight cards until he can rebuild his status.

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He was staring down potential $40m mega fights with the likes of Terence Crawford and will now likely head back Down Under to face old rival Michael Zerafa.

"I got caught with a shot and I just couldn't move on," Tszyu told his Instagram followers.

"I kept getting up but that wasn't good enough. Congrats to my opponent on a tremendous performance.

"We move on. Regroup, and my team will be back. I will be back, I'll be in big fights soon. I'll find plenty of answers from myself.

"The main thing my dad told me from a young age - never give up. If you shoot for the stars and you crash and burn on the way, just keep going. And I'm going to keep going and keep reaching for those stars."

Tszyu thanked his promoters No Limit Boxing for "always supporting me no matter what".

It may be somewhat ironic, then, that the top comment - albeit from a troll account - on his Instagram post was urging him to ditch his team following Sunday's loss.

That's a theme which has been prominent since Tszyu took a beating on Sunday, with prominent US promoter Lou DiBella among his team's fiercest critics.

Tszyu's team has been criticised for taking the Sebastian Fundora fight in March on short notice, then failing to stop the fight due to a nasty gash on his head, then going straight into another title fight against an unknown Russian beast in Murtazaliev.

While many critics have put the blame on Tszyu's team, respected fight analyst and former professional boxer Chris Algieri doesn't blame No Limit for chasing belts.

Instead he praises Tszyu for being willing to "take risks" in a sport where match making risks are rarely encouraged.

"Fighters are unwilling to take these risks. We live in an era where you have to have an O (an undefeated record); you have to be perfect. It's really unfortunate because it keeps the fighters from taking risks and promoters letting their fighters take the risks as well," Algieri told ProBox TV.

"The fan base just throws them away, and now guys are going to throw away Tim. I'm seeing headlines, 'Is Tim Tszyu washed?' The guy took two losses against good fighters, one of which was very controversial.

"I thought he was looking very fantastic in that fight before the elbow caused the horrific bloody cut on his forehead. He's blinded by blood for the next 11 rounds.

"He fought a murderous guy," Algieri added, giving credit to Murtazaliev.

"I thought this was more coming out for Murtazaliev than it is to say that Tim Tszyu is completely washed and we should throw him to the wayside. Tim chose these fights. It is a title fight. People are going, 'Oh, it's bad matchmaking.' It's a title fight. You fight the guy with a title. You fight everybody."