Who ruined the Usyk-Fury fight. The 33-year-old Croatian who helped Joshua prepare for the fight with Usyk and defeated two Ukrainians

33-year-old southpaw boxer with a professional record of 20 victories (18 early) and two defeats in 22 fights in the professional ring Agron Smakichi – the person because of whom lost his temper scheduled for February 17 heavyweight unification bout between WBA/WBO/IBF/IBO title holder Oleksandr Usik and WBC champion Tyson Fury. It is reported that it was in sparring with Smakichi The Gypsy King received a cutpreventing him from entering the ring for the next few months.

We tell you what is known about the Croatian boxer, who indirectly crossed paths with Usik and directly with Ukraine, who disrupted the most anticipated boxing fight in the last 25 years and the most lucrative boxing event.

The first to report that Fury was injured in the fight with Smakichi was the British promoter Frank Warren. “This happened this morning during a sparring session with a Croatian heavyweight who elbowed Tyson in the eye. I can’t tell you how devastated everyone is. Of course, I feel sorry for Tyson, Usyk, His Majesty Turki Al ash-Sheikh and everyone who works for Riyadh Season, because we all worked hard to make this fight happen, but unfortunately it will now have to be rescheduled. Of course, I believe that it will take place. We all signed up for this,” the promoter said.

Soon, Agron himself “confessed.” “It was a clean shot, so I don’t regret anything. Fury says a lot of things, but he knows how the sparring with me went,” Smakichi said.

Agron is a little-known boxer to the general public, although he has been performing in the professional ring since 2011. Smakichi is left-handed, with Kosovo blood flowing in him, and he began his professional sports career in kickboxing and MMA, but soon chose boxing. At one time, the Croatian was compared to Vladimir Klitschko due to his appearance and anthropometry, but Agron himself avoided such analogies.

“I’m different from him. I am more of a combination fighter, more focused on the American style. My style is attractive to fans. I can knock someone out in the first or second round. You will have fun if you come to my fights,” Smakichi asserted. Considering that Agron won 18 out of 20 fights, albeit far from the strongest boxers, by knockout, he did not sin much against the truth.

So far, the two most significant fights in Smakichi’s pro career have been fun. Agron lost to Kazakhstani boxer Jean Kosobutsky by knockout in the first round in the IBF Intercontinental belt fight, and to Agit Kabayel by knockout in the third, although he knocked down the German in the second.

At one time, Smakichi worked with the famous German specialist Jurgen Blin, and in his last fight – on September 30 last year – he defeated the Hungarian boxer Jozsev Kormani, who at the time of the fight had 19 victorious fights and 50 losses.

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Twice Smakichi crossed paths with Ukrainian boxers. In 2017, Agron knocked out Alexei Mazikin in the first round, and in 2019, also in the first round, Maxim Pedura. And yes, in the summer of 2022, Agron was in the training camp of another of Usik’s opponents, Anthony Joshua, helping the Briton prepare for Usik’s rematch.