Oleksandr Usyk believes that the defense of the world title in Ukraine remains out of reach | Boxing news

There is nothing in boxing that Oleksandr Usyk didn’t win.

He united all four world titles to become an undisputed world champion at Cruiserweight.

The Ukrainian achieved the same feat in a heavyweight category. When British tall Tyson Fury prevailed in May in their first fight, he brought together, although briefly, WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF Championships.

This made him the first indisputable heavyweight champion in 25 years since the reign of Lennox Lewis and the first of the four belt era.

He never lost a professional fight.

Return to your amateur career and won Olympic gold, as well as the Gold Medals of the World Cup and the European Championships.

But there is one dream that he believes he will never be able to understand. He doesn’t think he will ever fight in his homeland as a world champion.

The 38-year-old Usyk does not believe that the war will stabilize in his country before he has to withdraw from the sport.

“Now I think it’s not possible,” he said Sky Sports. “Russia struggles with Ukraine, a lot of rockets. I talk to my daughter, 14 years.” Hey, how are you? “” Oh, Dad, this night was terrible. “

“My family can live in a bomb shelter, I have (that).” Hey dad, today I’m going to a bomb shelter, Oh my God, I’m afraid. “I said, ‘Hey, listen, don’t worry, please go home tomorrow.’

“Listen, I think it’s a big problem, a lot.”

Usyk’s boxing career certainly carries the most famous importance of any heavyweight champion than Muhammad Ali. (Usyk also has the same birthday as the “biggest”, January 17th)

When Russia launched a complete invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Usyk enrolled in territorial defense forces in its homeland. Ever since he continued his boxer career, he tried to represent Ukraine.

Not only did he carry the Ukrainian flag and symbols in the ring, but he also borrowed his authority with certain campaigns.

During the monumental title, he clashes with Tyson Fury, supported DKE, the largest private energy company in Ukraine and their ‘fight for light’.

“It’s not a sponsorship agreement, it’s just a cooperation. It’s our common fight for Ukraine, so let’s keep the lights in Ukraine,” said DTKE CEO, Maxim Timchenko Sky Sports. “He is our key ambassador of this campaign.

“We are in the midst of this energy war,” he continued. “The whole country and millions of people depend on how we act, how we can protect ourselves, how we can restore energy production how quickly we can respond to these huge damage we have received since 2022.

“Of course, to stay alive and keep the lights in Ukraine, we need external support. With such challenges and such destruction, no company can be worn on its own.

“We use all means of delivering this message to talk about the situation in the Ukrainian energy sector and energy infrastructure, to show how the Russians destroy civilian infrastructure. This is nothing associated with military line or military equipment … They destroy civilian infrastructure so that millions of people are left without electricity and light.”

Only this week, Usyk visited the devastated energy plant in Central Ukraine to talk to workers and emphasize the struggle with which the sector faces.

“The commercial part was not a key factor of the decision to agree on this cooperation,” Timchenko said. “See 55,000 people working for our company, how they are struggling and how important it is to win in this fight.

“Every day we go through is another fight,” he noticed, especially in the sharp Ukrainian winter. “So the earth is not dived into the dark. This is what we call the victory.”

The inclusion of USYK “had a huge impact on Ukraine.”

“The whole country knows the company (now),” Timchenko said. “What was important to me was that our international partners were also aware of this fight.

“To like our partners, our donors, other energy companies, explain what is happening in Ukraine and what we need.”

Usyk DKE’s brand tidied up his fight with Fury and spent time with war veterans, who were now employed by a company, who brought him to support him in these championships.

Taking Fury to decide the best difficult category in the world was the most important struggle in his life. But the day before both such anger, Usyk was with those former soldiers.

“He is a very, very open, simple guy. He is already a legend. People from our company, people who have come back from the line, see this guy who is well known to the whole world who speaks in a very simple language about life experience, about families, about ordinary things, was very important. I think that is the memory of their life,” Timchenko said.

“People say it’s our guy. He’s one of us. That’s the most important thing, I think. People who saw all this horrible war, faced the death that it was in the first place; some of them were a very short step to die and accept you and say you are one of us – this is the greatest appreciation that you can have from people who know what real war is.”

When it comes to just a boxing match, they followed every blow, every step and every momentum of action.

“You could sit in the arena and hear the voices of our veterans,” Timchenko added. “For the first fight, if you want to hear the voice of Ukraine, it was of our veterans, they were the most active supporters in the fight.”

Usyk’s ring victories are important.

“It is very symbolic that in some ways it can be a comparison with our fight in Ukraine. That someone smaller, smarter with a big heart can beat someone bigger. This is basically something that can be translated and done in parallel with what is happening in Ukraine,” Timchenko said. “His victory is also very symbolic.”

The fighter himself does not stand too much on what he has achieved in sports.

“Boxing is my life. Maybe a lot of people (say 🙂 Oh yes, it’s a great legacy,” Usyk said. “I’m not thinking about it. Heritage. My children are blinded. What I build, what I do now for Ukraine.”

A small heavy, brilliant skillful, furiously committed to his workout with an relentless will to win, Usyk has become slightly bigger than athletes today.

“His achievement, it is not just the achievement of him as a boxer, as a person, that is a achievement of Ukraine. That is very important. We have to have more to pride in,” Timchenko said.

“This achievement is very important for us as Ukrainians, we fight every day and so a great achievement, historical achievement will remain forever in boxing history.

“That’s important and he will forever remain one of Ukraine’s heroes.”