WBA Champion Coach Dmitry Bivol and heavyweight Sergei Kuzmin Gennady Mashyanov told he was not interested in the fight Oleksandr Usyk with Daniel Dubois and revenge Antoine Joshua With Dillian Whyte .
Last Thursday, it was officially announced that Ukrainian Usyk will face regular WBA heavyweight champion Dubois on August 26 in Wroclaw, Poland. It has also been learned that the rematch between Joshua and White will take place on August 12 in London. The first fight between heavyweight boxers took place in 2015 and ended with Joshua’s victory by technical knockout.
– To be honest, these two fights do not interest me, I do not see any plot. The fights should be competitive, and here I don’t see any competition. Fighting purely to avoid downtime, so as not to rust. Although Joshua, it seems to me, will not return to the previous level. And Usyk just needs to fight on, keeping in mind the prospect of meeting Tyson Fury. Usyk does not stay in place.
– I remembered that in November last year there was a discussion about your possible collaboration with Joshua.
“Joshua and[le promoteur d’Eddie]Hearn wanted him to train with me. But now… Joshua has the influence of his parents. Maybe that was the problem. I don’t know what the details were. Yes, and I think he would be ready to go to train in Russia,” Mashyanov said in an interview with .
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Source : MatchTV
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