{"id":52437,"date":"2021-04-01T02:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=52437"},"modified":"2021-04-01T05:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T05:57:36","slug":"russias-tszyu-gaffe-after-crushing-fight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=52437","title":{"rendered":"Russia's Tszyu gaffe after crushing fight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu<\/a> is now well and truly his own man – but apparently not in the eyes of Mother Russia.<\/p>\n

The super-welterweight star finished Dennis Hogan<\/a> inside five rounds on Wednesday night in Newcastle<\/a>, again marking himself as a world class talent.<\/p>\n

Yet this was how the official Twitter account of the Russian embassy in Australia marked the moment: mistakenly calling Tim Tszyu 'Kostya', the name of his boxing icon father.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/RusEmbAU\/status\/1377432709803483136?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

Kostya, who lives in Moscow and doesn't attend his son's fights<\/a>, wrote on Tim's Instagram page after the Hogan stoppage: "Love you and so proud."<\/p>\n

Tim Tszyu's manager Glen Jennings said that his charge was no longer in his father's shadow.<\/p>\n

"There were some time early in his career where Tim was heavily compared to his father \u2014 that wasn't fair but it was normal. We expected that," Jennings said.<\/p>\n

"He's grown out of that now. Tim's his own man. The media and everyone address him as Tim, not Kostya's son."<\/p>\n

Yet Tszyu is marking himself against his dad to some degree, saying that he would not be satisfied until he was a dominant world champion.<\/p>\n

"My dad was an undisputed world champion for 10 years, what have I done?" he said.<\/p>\n

"Again, give me a few years. I've got a long way to go, my comparisons and my goals are out of this world and that's what I'm going to be striving for."<\/p>\n

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Tim Tszyu most pointedly addressed his father's shadow after knocking out former world champion Jeff Horn last year<\/a>, saying post-fight: "I just want everyone to know that my name's Tim. Not the son."<\/p>\n

He later told the TODAY show: "People are always saying I'm getting opportunities because of one reason and that's my last name and that I haven't proved myself.<\/p>\n

"But I just had to say that I am my own man and I have accomplished stuff that my last name hasn't given me. It's Tim Tszyu at the end of the day."<\/p>\n

He addressed any notion of a rift with his dad when speaking to Wide World of Sports<\/a> before the Hogan fight, with Kostya having left his wife and children to move back to Russia 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

"I was never against him," Tszyu said. "The main thing I wanted for my dad is just to live a low-key life and to be happy."<\/p>\n

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Tim Tszyu is now well and truly his own man – but apparently not in the eyes of Mother Russia. The super-welterweight star finished Dennis […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/52437"}],"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=52437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52439,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52437\/revisions\/52439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}