ate a still-beating snake heart before drinking its blood<\/a> while on a training camp in Thailand.<\/p>\nMore recently, he confirmed his wife \u2013 also named Nikita \u2013 freeze-dried her placenta, and \u2018The Butcher\u2019 is using it as a supplement during training camp. <\/p>\n
Random side quests and unique diets aside, Tszyu says he is a changed man in the two months since Curiosity arrived. <\/p>\n
\u201cLooking into her eyes, it gives me so much strength,\u201d he said. \u201cComing home each day after a hard training session, my body is just thrashed and I see that little face. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me all this energy and all this light. It reminds of why I\u2019m doing this. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to keep my family life and my boxing life separate, so even when I come home from training, there\u2019s no boxing talk. Unless I want to talk about it, home is my way of escaping from this world. <\/p>\n
\u201cBoxing is quite crazy and chaotic and there\u2019s a lot of stress that can be obtained. <\/p>\n
\u201cHome is my safe place away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nikita Tszyu in training camp. Pictures: No Limit Boxing\/Gregg PorteousSource: Supplied<\/p>\n
Tszyu says mum and baby will stay at home when he steps into the ring for the first since his war with Koen Mazoudier last August, and revealed older brother Tim won\u2019t be at the bout either. <\/p>\n
The fight will be one month and a day since Tim\u2019s loss to Sebastian Fundora, and \u2018The Soul Taker\u2019 \u2013 who has attended every one of Nikita\u2019s bouts \u2013 is taking some time away from boxing. <\/p>\n
That includes training for a marathon, and heading overseas.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to Japan \u2013 he needs some time off and time away just to reset himself,\u201d Nikita said. \u201cThe boxing world is cruel, and full of assholes who are full of things to say that are all bullsh*t. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe just needs to go away and do what he needs to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a double-edged sword for Nikita. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m kind of jealous \u2013 I want to go to Japan,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like I was Japanese in a past life. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so drawn to that country and their culture. I wish I was Japanese. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been once, when I was about 17. It\u2019s beautiful. I can\u2019t wait to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New father Nikita Tszyu has revealed he\u2019s been drinking his wife\u2019s breast milk and using her frozen placenta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[6207,521,186,22631,60080,122017,1935,122034,122020,122018,92682,122024,122026,122028,122023,122021,122032,122030,29609,122031,70033,2122,538,122033,17905,2048,2466,122025,60101,300,24993,22617,122027,122022,122029,42196,79,122019,731,97815,51789,58857,16,15,25002],"class_list":{"0":"post-343249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-australian-boxing","13":"tag-bizarre-pre-fight-diet","14":"tag-boxing","15":"tag-boxing-life","16":"tag-boxing-talk","17":"tag-boxing-world","18":"tag-breast-milk","19":"tag-breast-milk-revelation","20":"tag-breastmilk-cappuccino","21":"tag-changed-man","22":"tag-clean-diet","23":"tag-cruiserweight-world-champion","24":"tag-daily-telegraph","25":"tag-dylan-biggs","26":"tag-eastern-asia","27":"tag-gregg-porteous","28":"tag-jai-opetaia","29":"tag-japan","30":"tag-las-vegas","31":"tag-long-awaited-boxing-comeback","32":"tag-nevada","33":"tag-new-south-wales","34":"tag-newcastle","35":"tag-newfound-hydration-method","36":"tag-nikita-tszyu","37":"tag-north-america","38":"tag-northern-america","39":"tag-oceania","40":"tag-pre-fight-diet","41":"tag-pure-breastmilk","42":"tag-random-side-quests","43":"tag-south-eastern-asia","44":"tag-sports","45":"tag-still-beating-snake-heart","46":"tag-thailand","47":"tag-tim","48":"tag-training-camp","49":"tag-training-session","50":"tag-uk","51":"tag-united-kingdom","52":"tag-united-states-of-america"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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