WBO cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk told about who will come to support him on Saturday's fight in Riga against WBC title holder Mairis Briedis. According to Alexander, his family will be at the battle, including his wife and mother, as well as a certain number of Ukrainian fans.
"What I know, my fans, a lot of my friends and relatives will come. My family will come, my wife, my mother. Celebrities? For me they are very celebrities," said Usyk.
According to Kalle Sauerland, the promoter and one of the organizers of the show, judging by the official requests of the system, about 600 tickets were bought from Ukraine. In total, he expects on the fight about a thousand fans of Alexander. "Maybe more, we'll see on Saturday. Or on Friday, at the weigh-in," Kalle responded to the replica of Sergei Watamaniuk, trainer of Usyk, that there will be more of them.
The capacity of the Riga arena is more than 10 thousand seats.
