Oleksandr Usyk spent some time talking to Sky Sports about his upcoming undisputed heavyweight unification fight with Daniel Dubois, which will be a rematch between the men with Usyk stopping him the first time around. That first fight, of course, had at least some controversy about it, but Usyk says the only thing that matters is the upcoming fight. Here’s some of what he had to say below.
Usyk on what he thinks of his upcoming rematch with Dubois at Wembley
“I feel good. Listen, when I start my career, when I signed contract with professional team, it’s a big room and one man said ‘listen, you start your career boxing in Kyiv. This don’t have good TV, a lot of people not watching you.” I say ‘hey, listen, two maybe three years I go to Showtime and Sky Sports, first TV in the world.’
“‘Hey, we’ll see, we’ll see. It’s not possible.’ I say ‘it’s possible because I want to work, it is possible.’ Now I will be boxing in Wembley, Tottenham, a lot of people, Sky Sport, HBO, a lot of TV. I very happy. God give me chance. I take this chance, thank you so much.”
On Dubois’ insistence that he didn’t hit him low in their first fight
“Listen, it was in the past. Now I have new fight. I live now, in the present. I don’t know what’s going on in the future…For me it doesn’t matter what was in the past because it’s in the past — bye bye. Bye bye, thank you so much. You was great.
“Listen, this punch was bad…it’s not my problem. Referee make situation like this…Daniel say ‘hey, I win.’ Bro, you not win. We have new fight, doesn’t matter. Just wait.”
On how long he plans to keep fighting
“I think two (more fights), real fight. Like boxing, not freak fight, because I want to make freak fight maybe after two, three years. Now I just have two fights.”
