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About Kostya Tszyu
Kostya Tszyu grew up in the Soviet Union. At six year's old his father took him to watch his first boxing match in their mining town of Serov in the mid seventies.
By 11, he was winning fights and won his first national amateur title at 15. As an amateur boxer in the USSR, he won 259 fights, and was defeated only 11 times.
In 1992, aged 22, Kostya moved to Australia and made his professional debut knocking out his opponent in round one.
In 1995 he became an Australian citizen and has since won the WBC, the WBA, and the IBF Junior Welterweight Titles - making him the undisputed super lightweight world champion from November 2001 to 2004, and possibly the greatest Junior Welterweight boxer ever.
Kostya says he has no special physical talent – just the mental ability to ignore pain. He advised actor Russell Crowe, now a personal friend, on a fighter's psychological preparation for the filming of Cinderella Man.
He has lost just two fights in his professional career; in May 1997 against American Vince Phillips and in June 2005 against Brit Ricky Hatton. He has yet to announce whether he will fight professionally again.
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