Boxing legend Kostya Tszyu won’t be in his son Tim’s corner tonight after abandoning his family to start a new life with a model.
Leaving temperatures of -30C they landed in the middle of the Australian summer. “It’s a huge weight off my shoulders finally getting out here,” Tsyzyu said after arriving at Sydney airport. “Life in Russia is hard at the moment and there is very little food to be found.”
“She was very homesick and lonely. We argued a lot and she cried many times. We could not speak English and it was hard even to shop. We didn’t even know how to use a bank.”But it got better. In 1994 they welcomed a son, Tim, and three months later Kostya won his first world title. The Tszyu clan expanded to include another son Nikita and a daughter Anastasia and while they enjoyed their wealth by purchasing a three-storey waterfront palace and a $640,000 Bentley, Kostya showed no interest for the cheap thrills many boxers fall for and was the model family man.
Natalia, who had been portrayed as the doting wife and was photographed waiting at the airport every time her husband returned from a fight overseas, was suddenly happy to see him go. “If he met someone else I can’t do anything about it. If she could look after him in Russia, why not.”Kostya Tszyu with his second wife Tatiana Averina in Moscow.Kostya met his second wife, Tatiana Averina, around the same time his boxing career ended.
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