Oleksandr Usyk, the heavyweight world champion, has revealed he missed the start of his daughter as a consequence of his battle with Tyson Fury.
The Ukrainian’s spouse Yekaterina was anticipating their fourth baby across the identical time as his conflict with Fury, which was initially scheduled for 2 days earlier than Christmas.
However, the battle was delayed by two months due to Fury’s underwhelming efficiency in opposition to Francis Ngannou in October.
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This meant that 37-year-old Usyk was in his Spanish coaching camp when his daughter Maria was born – simply 5 days earlier than Fury pulled out of the rescheduled battle, now set for May 18.
Usyk stated: “I sacrificed all the dates we used to spend with my family. I was supposed to be somewhere around my wife, not in the room, but walking around waiting for her to give birth to my daughter.
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“I want to go back home, to hug my daughter, to thank my wife, to spend two or three days at home and then come back to camp.” Usyk was the final to know his battle with Fury was off once more. He was ending his final sparring session when he heard Fury needed to pull out due to a minimize.
But Usyk simply bought on with it. “I was already in the ring when the news occurred, when I finished the last round,” he defined. “Sergey [Lapin, Usyk’s team manager] got here as much as me, smiling and feeling uncomfortable. He stated we had some kind of information; I smiled and went again to the coaching, working with the boxing bag.
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“Even my wife found out first because I was training. After sparring I was in the ring and information started to come through and I had a lot of messages on my phone. But my wife was not angry that I had missed the birth. It’s my job and she is very smart. I am at my training camp and my wife says, ‘No problem, you have to work, Alex’.”
Fury could have simply over three months to get better earlier than he and his rival attempt once more for a much-anticipated battle in Saudi Arabia, placing their 4 belts on the road. If the British boxer is not in a position to sustain with the match situations, he dangers a whopping £10million minimize from his battle purse.
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“We have to treat this more seriously. This is a very important and anticipated fight for the whole world and we have to treat this professionally. If someone is trying to play me, they are playing by my rules,” famous Usyk.