
Being related to one of the greatest of all time is enough pressure to make most people crack.
But for the grandson of Muhammad Ali, Nico Ali Walsh, heās taken it in his stride with an undefeated run of eight fights since he turned pro.
And heās eyeing a seriously huge fight with another Australian from yet another of boxingās great families.
Ali Walsh is chasing a fight with the undefeated Nikita Tszyu, the younger son of legendary Russian-Australian boxer Kostya Tszyu.
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Speaking after his latest win, the prodigy admitted that a trip to Australia would be an intriguing prospect for him.

He told Fox Sports: āI donāt know too much about the Tszyu brothers but obviously Iāve heard of them.
āAnd I definitely want to have a fight down there in Australia, I love it.
āIāve never been but mum has, I have fans down there and Iāve only ever heard amazing things.
āSo I guess time will tell.
āIf itās supposed to happen it will happen.ā
The 22-year-old turned pro in 2021 and has since won eight straight fights with five of those wins coming by knockout.
He has trained with Tyson Furyās current fighter SugarHill Steward and is already being promoted by Bob Arumās Top Rank.
So he certainly has a lot of backing to be the next big thing in boxing.
Meanwhile, Tszyu began his pro journey in 2022 and has four wins and zero losses to his name.
Nikita is also the brother of the number one Australian fighter in Tim Tszyu, so it would certainly be a battle of two of the greatest boxing families coming together.
Seems like the perfect storm waiting to happen.
Muhammad Ali visited Australia in 1979 - the same year that he retired from boxing.
Although the public didnāt take to his exhibition fights he did appear as a special guest at the Logies in Melbourne.
Ali was a man of the people and itās something Ali Walsh wants to replicate.
He said: āI saw it growing up with my grandfather who was so nice to everyone.
āHe took pictures with everyone, signed every autograph ⦠heās my hero and I want to be like that.
āIām ready for it.ā
Topics:Ā Boxing, Muhammad Ali, Australia