The WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion will not run away from a warring country.
Oleksandr Usyk will return to Ukraine immediately after the fight with Anthony Joshua. The WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion spoke about it in an interview with The Guardian.
At the same time, the boxer said he was not going to fight in front.
“Right now, my family is not in Ukraine, but many of my close friends still remain in the country. I talk to them every day. I am interested in their activities, because it is very important to me. how they feel, if they are in a safe place.
I want to live in Ukraine and immediately after the fight with Joshua I will go home. No one would let me go to the front, but many of my close friends were fighting on the front lines. I support them and thanks to fighting Joshua I want to bring a little joy to their goal, ”Usyk said.
It will be recalled that the rematch between Usyk and Joshua will take place on August 20 in Saudi Arabia. To accept the British challenge, the Ukrainian had to leave the ranks of defense in the territory of the Kyiv region, which he immediately signed up after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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