They may be half a world apart, but Tim Tszyu will be carrying part of his legendary father into tonight's fight! 9WWOS
That wasn't the undisputed world champion's true gift to his son.The principles of hard work that he learned from Serov, his birthplace; a small Russian mining town shadowed by the Ural Mountains. Kostya famously did headstands to strengthen his neck, caught coins to sharpen his hand-speed, sliced paper to perfect his punching technique.Training hard isn't something you do sometimes. Winning isn't something you do sometimes.
"That's my ultimate goal: not just to reach the top but to stay at the top and it's two completely different things. "Of course, once you get to the top, all the roles change and you're going to be hunted. I'm at the position now where I'm hunting and I want to get to the very top. That's why I'm taking this fight with Jeff so seriously."a volley of barbs
Tszyu is intent on proving that he's merely a decorated stepping stone, a man who won't be done any favours by the seven-year age gap."The youth and hunger a lot of the time prevails. It allows you to train harder and be hungrier. He lives in Crimea these days, with his second wife and their children, and has attended just one of his son's fights; though he supports from afar, as he will for the Horn bout. And being raised by Kostya, Tim learned to punch before he could walk.
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