Australian boxer Nikita Tszyu shares his newfound passion for videography – Update

Rising Aussie boxing star Nikita Tszyu (7-0) has opened up about his newfound love for photography and videography.

The 25-year-old’s last name is seared into Australian boxing history by his father Kostya, and his brother Tim, who is helping solidify the legacy.

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However, Nikita took a step away from boxing before returning a few years back, and in that time the Sydneysider studied architecture at University.

A move which has recently inspired him to follow a hobby in creating artistic video pieces and photography.

“During my eight years away from boxing I studied architecture, so I was getting a little bit creative in that aspect,” Tszyu told 7NEWS.com.au.

“I recently developed an interest in photography and videography and just applying the same kind of characteristics that I learned in universities into this field, and it’s a little hobby.

“I’m a bit OCD. There’s like a blue grid that I have to follow and if it doesn’t work with the grid then it doesn’t,” the boxer said, with a cheeky smile on his face.

The professional fighter says the videos are extremely sentimental, even though they are often snapshots of monotonous parts of his life.

“I see it as holding on to a memory and putting it up for everyone to see,” the 25-year-old said.

“They’re like little bites of my day-to-day life, that for me, it’s kind of mundane.

“But it’s also nice to be able to see things from a third person’s perspective, from the cameras point of view.

“It’s a thing that I can always kind of look back on myself, I constantly rewatch the videos all the time just to re-experience what it was and just to experience the situation.”

Nikita says the videos can be soothing, notably when he is homesick and in another country.

“The sauna video I posted. I go to the sauna every single weekend, but I like watching just to hear the sounds.

“When I was in Thailand, I was kind of missing my home sauna. I’d be watching the videos just to hear the sounds of the steam coming off the sound of the door opening, and it’s nostalgic.

When asked if he could see himself going into film or television after his boxing the career, Nikita replied: “Who knows? We’ll see. We’ll see where things go.”

“After my boxing career, you’ll be surprised if you could even get a hold of me.

“I’ll be in a forest somewhere and just really isolated. I’ll put up a video out every now and then, but no one will get a hold of me.”

Surprising admission

Four months into his return to full-time training as a boxer, after an eight-year hiatus, Tszyu went into a sparring session with the now Australian super welterweight champion Dylan Biggs.

In the fifth round of the session, Biggs dropped Tszyu with a right hand, fuelling rumours which bounced around the Australian boxing world for several years.

It’s an event that the youngest Tszyu brother has been surprisingly open about.

“I simply just walked into a punch off-balance and stood back up straight away, and we kept going,” the 25-year-old said.

“It didn’t hurt or anything. I was. I was in a just a state of fatigue at that point and just walked into a clean shot that put me off-balance.”

Two years on from the infamous sparring session, Tszyu is ready to get one back on his rival, by dethroning him from his title reign.

“Yeah, it was very early on in my career. I was four months after I started boxing again,” Tszyu said.

“I was still learning a lot about myself still. Learning a lot about the professional aspect of the sport and yeah, he got the better of me.

The Aussie boxing star says it was a crucial moment in his career, and something that has sat in the back of his mind every day since the sparring session.

“It became a great lesson for me, something I have focused on and have always been thinking about,” he said.

“I knew this fight (with Biggs) would happen no matter what, and I’ve always kind have been tailoring all my tactics towards this fight.”

Tszyu faces Biggs in the ring on November 22 in Newcastle, something he says is a great relief and paramount in continuing to build his career.

“This is a weight lifted off my shoulders, getting this fight secured and being able to,” he added.

“Being able to get the victory over him is going to be a pivotal moment for me.”

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