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Tim Tszyu is now well and truly his own man - but apparently not in the eyes of Mother Russia.
The super-welterweight star finished Dennis Hogan inside five rounds on Wednesday night in Newcastle, again marking himself as a world class talent.
Yet this was how the official Twitter account of the Russian embassy in Australia marked the moment: mistakenly calling Tim Tszyu 'Kostya', the name of his boxing icon father.
Kostya, who lives in Moscow and doesn't attend his son's fights, wrote on Tim's Instagram page after the Hogan stoppage: "Love you and so proud."
Tim Tszyu's manager Glen Jennings said that his charge was no longer in his father's shadow.