For so long the comparisons were kind, flattering, focused only on the positives. They centred largely on the way he stood - upright, steady, poised - and the way he threw his right hand nice and straight, just like his old man. They also touched on the difference in size, with the son slightly bigger than the father, and what it would take for the son to eventually eclipse what his father had achieved in the ring. The early signs were positive, they said, but still he had a long, long way to go. His father, after all, was not just any world champion, but one of the finest fighters of his generation. He made 13 title defenses. He made Zab Judah dance. He made a nation proud and a son feel inspired enough to want to follow in his footsteps. That is why Tim Tszyu has for years been compared to his father: how he fights, how he wins, how far he has to go to emulate him. He has been compared to him because his father, Kostya, was no ordinary fighter and, in the context of a son carrying on the family business, no ordinary father, either.
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