{"id":391513,"date":"2024-05-07T00:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391513"},"modified":"2024-05-07T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:08:09","slug":"kostya-tim-tszyu-reunite-ahead-of-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391513","title":{"rendered":"Kostya, Tim Tszyu 'reunite' ahead of blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu<\/a> has reunited \ufeffwith his father Kostya<\/a> as he begins preparations for the toughest fight of his career against Vergil Ortiz<\/a> in Los Angeles, August 4 AEST.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the former WBO super welterweight champion announced the pair had linked up with a clip posted on social media showing them embracing.<\/p>\n

"Long time in the making," Tim captioned the video clip.<\/p>\n

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He later posted a photo with Kostya to X.<\/p>\n

"Reunited," he wrote.<\/p>\n

"Time for the old man to teach the young buck some new tricks.<\/p>\n

"I am coming into this camp with a whole new mindset. Kill or be Killed. Back to old school. The roots I grew up in."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Tszyu\/status\/1787120128137867549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

It's understood Kostya will spend at least two weeks with Tim at his training camp in Thailand. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Kostya planned to be at Tim's recent blockbuster bout with Sebastian Fundora in Las Vegas, but logistical issues got in the way.<\/p>\n

It's the first time father and son have seen each other in person since 2019, when Tszyu fought Jack Brubaker.<\/p>\n

There's no official word yet on whether Kostya will be in Tim's corner for the Ortiz fight or if he'll be in Tim's training camp as the event draws closer.<\/p>\n

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Kostya, a boxing Hall-of-Famer, lives in Russia and opened a restaurant in his native country post-retirement, leaving his Australian life behind over ten years ago.<\/p>\n

Tszyu\ufeff will square off with Ortiz, on the undercard of the Terence Crawford vs Israil Madrimov, for Madrimov's WBA super welterweight belt.<\/p>\n

The fight against Ortiz is easily the toughest of his career, with the American recording a 100 per cent knockout ratio. On top of that, his style is very similar to Tszyu's, with both fighters moving forward aggressively.<\/p>\n

Ortiz's promoter, boxing icon Oscar de la Hoya, is predicting fireworks when his fighter meets the Aussie.<\/p>\n

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"With Tim Tszyu, it's going to be a war," De la Hoya said.<\/p>\n

"I'm a thousand per cent confident in my guy, but you can't sleep on Tim Tszyu.<\/p>\n

"I love his style, his aggression, and his power. This fight will be a clash of the titans.<\/p>\n

"Vergil Ortiz stopping this fight in one round will give him the confidence to go back to the gym and I promise you, he will knock Tim Tszyu out."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu has reunited \ufeffwith his father Kostya as he begins preparations for the toughest fight of his career against Vergil Ortiz in Los Angeles, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391518,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391513\/revisions\/391518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}