Oleksandr Usyk opens on a trip to undisputed heavyweight champion

Oleksandr Usyk will try to become the holder of all four heavyweight belts for the second time when he takes on Daniel Dubois this weekend

Oleksandr Usyk is the last man from his boyhood Backyard Brawls.

The Ukrainian will compete against Daniel Dubois on Saturday evening while trying to become the undisputed heavyweight world champion for the second time. But the Wembley confrontation is far away from the early years of Usyk when he only pressed himself over bashing his neighbors.

“When I started boxing, I just wanted to hit someone in my back garden,” he said. “I didn’t intend to become a professional boxer. I just thought:” I’m really going to enjoy this, “and then my coach said that I can become world champion. Then I thought that if we have seven billion people on the planet and I can become world champion, it is very good, but at the same time I didn’t really believe him.

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‘The place where I come from, people don’t really believe in the dreams that I really live now. They don’t even believe that they can move from their city to another city next year. I would write, not that, “I will be champion,” but “I am the world champion.” If anyone would say: “Oleksandr Usyk wants to become world champion,” I would say: “No, I am the world champion.”

“Of the 10 boys in the same area, I was the only one who used to say that I would be a world champion; they would not do anything, and they would not believe it. One of them, Sergey Lapin, is one of us here, was the only one,” I think you will really do that. ” [about] How hard I worked to get what I have now. “

And the other eight guys? “Some of them are no longer with us; some of them simply work in regular jobs, and the things they all dreamed of, they did not achieve,” usyk added.

Usyk won Olympic gold as an amateur before he won the Cruiserweight Division in the paid ranks. He went to heavyweight and sent Anthony Joshua twice before stopping Dubois two years ago. Last year, Utyk posted Tyson Fury to keep all four belts – albeit briefly – before he defeated the gigantic traveler for the second time.

And while the 38-year-old is preparing to meet Dubois again, he knows that he will soon have to hang his gloves. Asked if he could retire after this weekend, he added: “No, two more fights; this and next. But I will not stop boxing forever. I will train younger boxers and give them the experience I have gained. Maybe I will even become the coach.”