{"id":1229,"date":"2023-10-15T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1229\/tim-tszyu-def-brian-mendoza-relationship\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:49:12","slug":"tim-tszyu-def-brian-mendoza-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu def Brian Mendoza, relationship with dad Kostya Tszyu, phone call after world title defence, will dad be at his next fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Tszyu def Brian Mendoza, relationship with dad Kostya Tszyu, phone call after world title defence, will dad be at his next fight\u060c<\/p>\n

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Tim Tszyu jokingly apologized to his legendary father Kostya Tszyu “for getting hit” during his dominant world title defense against Brian Mendoza.<\/p>\n

In an awkward but funny post-fight moment, Kostya called his son on Facetime during a live television interview on Main Event’s coverage of the fight, with the two men chatting briefly afterward.<\/p>\n

” Dad I love you. And sorry I got hit,\u201d Tim said with a laugh before being told something off-screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, he didn\u2019t see the fight! So good.”<\/p>\n

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Tim sends a hilarious message to Dad! | 00:45<\/p>\n

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Former world champion Shawn Porter blamed Tszyu for his reaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s terrible TV, you shouldn’t tell them he didn’t see the fight!” You should have pretended he saw the fight! \u00bb Porter joked.<\/p>\n

Tszyu replied, \u201cHe should have told me too!\u201d I’m not happy with you man<\/a> (laughs).<\/p>\n

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\u201cCome and get him\u201d: Tszyu\u2019s message to Charlo | 01:37<\/p>\n

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Kostya now lives in Russia with his second family – having remarried and returned to Europe when his boys were young – and no longer attends Tim’s fights, since a “chaotic” ringside appearance in the champion’s professional debut of the world against Zorran Cassady.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very simple, he was going crazy,\u201d Tszyu said of his father\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n

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Kostya Tszyu on the phone after Tim’s world title<\/a> defense against Brian Mendoza.<\/span>Source: RENARD SPORTS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tszyu revealed to Fox Sports Australia that he removed his father’s old fight posters from the walls of the Tszyu Boxing Academy ahead of the fight with Mendoza.<\/p>\n

However, it was more about a new attitude and mentality than any sort of negativity between the two men, with Tim saying he would be more than happy to see Kostya in his next fight – almost certainly in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamily is everything to me, it\u2019s why I do it, and everyone on my team feels like family too. I see us as a pride of lions all together, celebrating and doing everything together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my father wants to come, sure. I’ll save him a ticket and he’ll be in the front row too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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