Kostya Tszyu
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"Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu" is a retired Russian-Australian professional boxing/boxer of mixed Russians/Russian, Koreans/Korean and Mongols/Mongol descent. His Russian-Korean name may appear cumbersome in English, though it is pronounced the same as the traditional anglophone spelling of the Christian first name and Korean surname: Constantine Tsu. His spelling is an overly literal legal letter-for-letter transcription of his native Cyrillic alphabet documents as issued by the Soviet Union, presumably retained because his international career began before his move to Australia. "Kostya" is simply the traditional short, informal Russian version of his first name. He holds both Russian and Australian citizenship and is a four-time world Light Welterweight Champion, including a period of time as the Undisputed Light Welterweight Champion.

Tszyu was the first champion to unify the light welterweight division in over 30 years. He is considered by many in Australia to be a national sports hero. In The Ring (magazine)/Ring Magazine's March 2010 issue, Tszyu was ranked as the number one junior welterweight of the decade (2000's). On 7 December 2010, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for the Class of 2011.

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I have learned lots of things and I know how not to make mistakes as a manager, ... I am positive they are not going to make the same mistakes I made.

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If I am not going to stay in the same weight class, will he (Hatton) be interested in coming up?

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No, not yet, not finished, ... If I am going to fight, I am probably not going to fight at 140. It will be at 147lbs.

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She is learning to be a good teacher. She is pushing me. Being a good teacher is about give and take.

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I don't mind, in some ways.

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I was really very happy to see this from a young fighter who knew that he had a training session in the morning that was more important than anything else.

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I believe I did lose the (first) round, but it was a competitive one, not one-sided. He will remember our fight for the rest of his life and he still believes that if the referee had continued the fight it would have been a different result. Yes, I was caught in the middle of the (first) round but I came back in the latter part and I was always in control of myself.

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Life is all about facing new challenges.

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