More than a son of a gun, Tim_Tszyu is a world champion in his own right after knocking out flashy American Iamboxing in their super-welterweight showdown in Sydney. 7NEWS
The hometown favourite’s victory came 28 years after Kostya knocked out Jake Rodriguez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - when Tim was barely two months old - to capture his maiden world title, the IBF super-lightweight strap.The Tszyus join an elite group of just six father-son boxing world champions, including Julio Cesar Chavez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, and Leon and Corey Spinks.
Tszyu was supposed to have squared off with Charlo in Vegas in January before the American broke two bones in his left hand in training. The only man to have beaten Charlo, Harrison had derided Tszyu as “the bottom of the totem pole” for beating mostly nobodies and riding his family name to his date with destiny.
Incredibly, Tszyu is the second boxer hailing from Kostya’s academy in suburban Sydney to snare a world title in the past 18 months.George Kambosos Jr, who grew up training with Tszyu at the gym before forging his own path through in the US and the Philippines, held the WBA, IBF, WBO and The Ring lightweight titles until last June after upsetting the previously unbeaten Teofimo Lopez in New York in October 2021.
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