Tim Tszyu’s mother, Natalia, has predicted that the Australian world champion and his fiancée will give her a grandson who will follow in his footsteps by becoming a boxer, just days before he has the most important fight of his life in Las Vegas.
The 29-year-old will fight the 197cm tall Sebastian Fundora on Sunday Australian time, with Tszyu’s WBO super welterweight belt and vacant WBC title on the line.
Natalia Tszyu made the prediction while in Las Vegas to watch her son attempt to follow in his legendary father Kostya’s footsteps by claiming a world title in Sin City, which would make him the first Australian-born boxer to achieve the feat. .
“I’m telling you, I won’t be surprised if one day you talk to me and I’m going to be a grandmother and my grandchildren are going to be fighting,” she said. fox sports.
“Honestly, I’m sorry.”
Tim Tszyu’s mother, Natalia (pictured together), believes it is only a matter of time before her son gives her a grandson to carry on the family’s wrestling tradition.
The Australian world champion is engaged to his partner Alexandra Constantine (pictured together) after they met during a boxing class in Sydney in 2016.
Constantine has been in almost all of Tim’s fights and will be ringside when he takes on the biggest challenge of his career – and his biggest opponent – on Sunday Australian time.
Tszyu is in for a David and Goliath clash with Fundora, who is a staggering 23cm taller than him and has an incredible reach advantage.
The Australian is a heavy favorite to win the fight, and in doing so could emulate his father, who scored arguably his most famous victory when he knocked out Zab Judah in spectacular fashion to become the unified lightweight world champion in the gaming mecca. . in 2001.
Natalia went on to reveal that her son made an eerily accurate prediction about his future in wrestling over a decade ago.
He said he tried to make sure Tim and his brother Nikita didn’t take up boxing by putting them in private school and changing their lives so they “lived in a normal Australian way”.
Tszyu will gift the astonishing height of 23cm to American Sebastian Fundora when they fight for the WBO and WBC super welterweight belts in Las Vegas.
“Then one day 12 years ago, Tim said to me, ‘Mom, I want to box. I see myself fighting in Las Vegas. And one day, when my dad comes to Australia, I’m going to pick him up in a beautiful car and drive around Sydney,'” he recalled.
‘I’m here today and I remember that conversation. And the dream comes true.”
Tszyu is engaged to her partner Alexandra Constantine, who will be ringside for Sunday’s fight.
He has said the Sydney-born finance graduate has been a rock for him during his rise to the top of the sport.
‘She also lives this. “She’s young, she could be going to bars, hanging out with her friends, but instead she’s stuck in a sauna with me on Saturday nights and then we go to bed early,” Tszyu said.
The Tszyu family appears from right to left in Las Vegas for the Fundora fight: mom Natalia, Tim, sister Anastasia and brother Nikita.
It had been reported that Tim’s legendary father Kostya would be ringside with Alexandra for the big title fight, but the 54-year-old did a backflip earlier this week.
‘When I diet, she diets. She cooks a lot of meals and actually keeps me firm on my diet.
“So it’s not just my victory when I win a fight, she also deserves to be the center of attention.”
The couple met at a boxing class in the southern Sydney suburb of Rockdale in 2016, and it was love at first sight for Tszyu.
The wrestler, who normally refuses to hold the pads for anyone else, was taken with her smile.
Once class was over, the pair started chatting and the two have been inseparable ever since.
Constantine, who speaks fluent English, French and Macedonian, has been ringside at almost all of Tszyu’s professional fights.
It was originally reported that Kostya would make the trip to the US to watch him fight Fundora, but the 54-year-old legend did a backflip and will no longer be present.