Tim Tszyu rarely speaks about his famous father, Kostya, or his upbringing. So it was a surprise to hear him call the old man a “soft guy” after a rare reunion.
When Tim Tszyu caught up with his father in Thailand for a training camp last month, he encountered a very different man to the one who raised him.
There appeared nothing soft about Kostya during Tim’s Thai training camp. The images of the pair working out together on social media were stunning: the shadow boxing together in front of the iconic Big Buddha in Phuket, as well as pad sessions in stifling heat at one of the local gyms.“I’m telling him, ‘You gotta get Ricky Hatton back, man’,” Tim jokingly said of a rematch with one of only two men to vanquish Kostya. “Yeah, he’s still got it.
“Sometimes when you go away, when I go on the Thailand trips and when I go to America training camps, you meet the one per cent of the people. But then there’s the 0.1 per cent and there’s not many of us that are in it. Regardless, it was a chance for the pair to reconnect. Grandfather Boris has been the father figure in Tszyu’s life since Kostya moved to Russia. Tszyu has struck the delicate balance between trading on the name of his famous father since moving into the professional ranks, while still carving out his own identity.
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