The Ukrainian boxer may have renounced the title, but Russian war-wounded soldiers opposed it.
Oleksandr Usyk plans to surrender the championship belt he won in his first fight with Anthony Joshua. The WBA, WBO and IBF world champion himself spoke about it.
According to the Ukrainian boxer, the soldiers at the hospital encouraged him to take revenge. They motivated Usik to perform on the international stage again.
“We went to the men in the hospital in Lvov. These were the men who defended Mariupol and they were the first to get to the hospital. We started talking, and each of them said to me: “Sanya, you are sick.” I answered: “I know.” They said, “You have to box. You have to go to the rematch. You should tell the whole world what’s going on here because you have a huge global audience.”
It was hard to make the decision to leave. Back then I didn’t think about boxing. I talked to my promoter Alexander Krasyuk about talking to the organizations and getting rid of the belts, and when it’s all over, I’ll come back and box. Here, all the military soldiers told me for the second time that I was sick. I listened to them.
They told me: “As a combat unit, you are zero in the army. Yes, you can hold a weapon in your hands, but you are not a military person. The fact that you train, go to the shooting range, it is It doesn’t help. I decided to prepare for the second fight with Anthony Joshua,” Luckypunch told Usik.
Earlier, Usik told how he switched to Ukrainian.
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Source: korrespondent
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