By: Sean Crose
WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk shocked an entire lot of individuals on Saturday when he signed with Saudi Arabia’s Skill Challenge Promotions. Talking to Radio Rahim of Seconds Out, the undefeated Ukrainian fighter defined his reasoning. “Skills Challenge is capable of organizing the fight with Tyson Fury,” he stated merely. Apparently an undisputed heavyweight title struggle stays an actual chance. Rahim inquired of Usyk’s apparent heat interplay with a Saudi prince current on the signing ceremony. “I think that normal business relationships are impossible without good friendly relations between the men,” he stated.
When requested about how he’s managing to proceed a profession whereas his Ukrainian homeland continues to be below Russian assault, Usyk allowed his patriotism to take middle stage. “It’s true the fight that I’m going to have for those people who dared to fight on the front line, who sacrificed their lives, for their country, for my country, this fight will be for them.” Usyk then went on to clarify present life in Ukraine.
“When you wake up one o’clock at night because you heard an explosion, a bomb, a drone, a rocket, a missile, whatever,” he stated, “and you hear that your building you’re living in is shaking, the windows are shaking, your daughter and your wife are running already to the bomb shelter, you feel when you see your home animals housing themselves under the bed, you feel anger, maybe it’s not anger, but you feel frustration about it.”
Usyk wished to make it clear that on a regular basis individuals had been being impacted by the battle. “Normal civilians, they are suffering it every night,” stated the undefeated titlist. “It’s not good. It has to be stopped. For me, I’m a rich person I can live any place on planet earth, but Ukraine is my home and how can I leave my home in such a horrible, difficult time?” As exhausting because the scenario in his nation is, Usyk indicated he views it by means of a religious perspective. “For myself, I’m not afraid to die,” he stated. “I know that death is not the final point. I know that there is an eternal life after death if you save your soul…I ask the Lord to save my soul and to save (the) souls of other people.”
As issues stand in regard to his ring profession, Usyk is scheduled to face Daniel Dubois this August in Warsaw. What comes after that might be as much as Fury – supplied Usyk defeats Fury’s fellow Englishman, Dubois.
