Konstantin Tszyu (photo below) is a well-known Australian-Russian boxer with many awards and titles. In 1991 he received the title of master of sports. Former world champion in several boxing federations.
Childhood
Tszyu Konstantin was born in the city of Serov in 1969. His surname is translated from Korean as Krasnov. Although in their family a purebred Korean was only his great-grandfather, who came to Russia from China. And grandfather did not know a single word in Korean.
Parents of the future boxer belonged to the category of the most ordinary people and were not related to sports. My mother worked in the field of medicine, and my father worked all his life at metallurgical enterprises.
Kostya himself has always been very mobile and active. Energy just seethed in the child. In order to direct her into a fruitful course, in 1979 his father took the boy to the boxing section. And this choice turned out to be right.
Six months later, the ten-year-old boxer Konstantin Tszyu easily defeated the guys much older than him. Two years later, coaches from the junior team of the USSR became interested in him.
Carier start
So Tszyu Konstantin and began his professional career. He has won a number of international and regional competitions. Kostya also successfully performed at tournaments. In 1985, he received the junior title of champion of the USSR.
In 1989, Tszyu began to achieve success in the adult category. He won the championship belt and triumphantly won the European championship. Then a series of significant victories followed. In the same year, Kostya took third place at the Moscow Boxing Championship in the category of up to 60 kilograms.
In 1990-1991, a talented athlete twice won the USSR title. He also participated in a number of international competitions, winning several gold medals for the country, including at the Goodwill Games.
The success of an athlete in international competitions attracted the attention of foreign coaches. One of them was Johnny Lewis from Australia. It was he who persuaded Konstantin to move permanently to his country. After some time, Tszyu was offered official citizenship, which he gladly accepted. After that, the athlete began to go to exhibition confrontations, held in different parts of the world.
During his professional career, Konstantin managed to become the strongest boxer in the world in his own weight category. From time to time, he defeated such celebrities as Judah Zab, Jesse Leih, Hown Laporte, Cesar Chavez and others. These victories allowed him to gain fame in the boxing world. Kostya became a star not only in Australia, but also in Russia.
Throughout his career, he spent 282 matches, losing only 12 times. This is a very impressive indicator. For this achievement in 2011, Tszyu was included in the Hall of Fighting Glory. It is noteworthy that on the same day it included actor Sylvester Stallone and the champion of Mexico - Cesar Chavez (our athlete defeated him in one of the champion matches).
After boxing
After completing his career, Tszyu Konstantin began to train young athletes. For his wards, he developed his own training scheme, which allows him to effectively confront various opponents. The most famous students of Konstantin are Allahverdiyev, Povetkin, Lebedev. Tszyu also holds seminars and workshops for boxers. With his own money, he opened several schools in Russia in order to popularize sports.
In 2010, Tszyu Konstantin headed the electronic publication Fight Magazine, covering various martial arts. So revealed another talent of the former boxer. He is also a frequent visitor to various television shows - “Dancing with the Stars,” “Be the First,” etc.
At the moment, the athlete works as a trainer and publishes his own product. At the end of 2013, some media outlets reported that the boxer began to write an autobiography. But this information still remains unconfirmed.
Personal life
Konstantin Tszyu, whose biography is described above, has been married for twenty years. The boxer's first wife was named Natalia. According to official sources, in this marriage the spouses had three children who, following the example of their father, linked their lives to sports. After the divorce, the boxer said that he had not got along with his wife for the past twelve years. In fact, all this time they did not live together.
Tszyu now has a new girl - Tatyana. Happy couple in no hurry to register a relationship. The athlete answers evasively to the question about the desire to have more children , so anything is possible.