A professional boxing tournament was held in Australia this week, the main event of which was the fight for the country’s junior middleweight title. Kostya Tszyu’s youngest son, Nikita Tszyu, finished off the undefeated belt holder Dylan Biggs in an incredibly brilliant fight and became the new Australian champion. After the fight, Nikita announced her desire to continue his career in the United States, and has everything to declare herself at the highest level.
As a child, Nikita and his older brother practiced boxing, participated in various youth tournaments and even achieved good results. However, Kostya Tszyu’s youngest son did not want to start a professional career: he left boxing and decided to focus on education. After studying to be an architect and designer at one of Australia’s most prestigious universities, Nikita unexpectedly decided to return to sports: his father’s genes played a role and his older brother’s successful performances strongly motivated Tszyu to return. .
Nikita made his professional debut in March 2022, and already from the first two fights it was clear that the young Tszyu had his own style, completely different from that of his brother. Australians Aaron Stahl and Mason Smith were eliminated in the second and first rounds respectively, and after such a brilliant debut, Nikita compared herself to Tim.
Nikita Tszyu
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“My father always tells me to be prepared for hard work and determination. If you’re going to do this, you have to give it 100%. That’s exactly how I was raised. They call my brother the ring surgeon. I’m more like a butcher. We do the same work, but in different ways. In that sense, I am a little dirtier,” Nikita told BoxingScene.
Since then, Nikita was given the nickname Butcher, and Tszyu Jr. himself fully justified it in every fight. Of the seven opponents, only Ben Horn made the decision in the fight with Nikita before Dylan Biggs; everyone else was knocked out.
21-year-old Biggs also could not resist, although it was he who gave Nikita at this time the most difficult fight of his career. Tszyu was knocked down in the first seconds, but quickly regained consciousness and managed to turn the tide of the fight. Tszyu and Biggs had a real fight in the ring, from which Nikita emerged victorious and became the new Australian champion. The first belt for Kostya’s youngest son, but he is not going to stop there and wants to conquer America
Nikita’s style is perhaps the most striking among all of Tszyu’s boxers. Nikita does not take the time for recognition, like his older brother, he does not take a closer look at his opponent, but immediately begins to press, tries to strangle his opponent with pressure and pressure, constantly collapsing the series from the first minutes of the fight. . Nikita appears much more powerful than his brother, even though they compete in the same weight class and, due to his physical characteristics, effectively confronts his rivals.
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Tszyu Jr. likes to fight a lot, he likes to make exchanges, even if he fails. “There is nothing better than a failed shot. “It’s like a cup of coffee in the morning,” Nikita commented on his fall in the fight with Biggs, and these words were met with thunderous applause from the audience. In Australia, Butcher has already become no less popular than his older brother: spectacular victories and brilliant style turned Nikita into a local star. And Nikita does not mess around, constantly delighting journalists and boxing fans with vivid quotes, which is also valued in modern boxing.
Naturally, physical power comes with a hard punch, and Nikita is truly a serious puncher. Look at how Biggs’ face contorted after Tszyu hit him square in the liver: one punch and the champion was on the ground, although just a round ago he had a smile on his face. In this, Nikita, by the way, is very similar to Kostya: his father also received a powerful blow, Zab Judah does not let him lie.
Kostya Tszyu
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And with all this, behind the physical power, the constant pressure, the desire to kill, there is the fighting technique and intelligence of the young Tszyu. If we return to the fight with Biggs, we can notice that Nikita “fed” the opponent’s body during the initial four rounds. As soon as Dylan started cutting Tszyu and forgot about defense, Nikita delivered a powerful punch to his liver. And the cumulative effect of this ultimately played a decisive role.
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Of course, with this style of the young Tszyu, doubts arise about the defense. Comparing a punch to a cup of coffee is pretty clever, but in each of his fights Nikita misses quite a bit, and in the fight with Biggs, even an indecent amount. Even after the fall, when in a friendly manner it was necessary to let go and recover, Nikita attacked Dylan again, forgetting about defense. But that’s what Nikita is all about: he fights brilliantly, spectacularly and at the same time dangerously for himself. At the same time, Tszyu Jr. has already shown everyone more than once that he can take a hit. Biggs, for example, unleashed his full power on Nikita, but aside from a knockdown early in the fight, which can be attributed to inattention and loss of concentration, Dylan was unable to shake Nikita. The young Tszyu relies on his strong chin and the power of his fists, on the fact that his opponents simply cannot resist in exchanges with him, and so far this tactic is working.
Nikita Tszyu is a potential superstar in his division. Bright, daring, powerful, spectacular and, most importantly, effective: he is Kostya’s youngest son, who pursues his older brother by leaps and bounds. It seems that Tim will soon have to move up in weight and vacate the first middleweight Olympus for Nikita, who is ready to conquer Las Vegas.
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