Yesterday, the boxing teams arrived in Jeddah, where the media week for the upcoming boxing show started. Alexander and Anthony were involved in the filming of the promo and also talked to the media.
“This time I enter the ring in the status of a champion, but I don’t feel that this will make it easier for me,” Oleksandr Usyk said in an interview with Sky Sports News. “I understand that I have to do my job properly, and this will not be an easy task for me.”
“I want to help my people and my country, and I want this Saturday evening to become a small holiday for them, and maybe a big holiday. I will do everything in my power to demonstrate the best result."
“In the first fight I wanted to outbox my opponent, and on Saturday I want to crush him,” Joshua said in an interview with Sky Sports News.
“I think this battle will be different from the first. Joshua will be more determined. If he loses to Usyk again, it could mean the end of his career. I do not claim that this will be the case, but it is possible. So he takes it very seriously. He changes his coach, changes his attitude, changes his approach, trains... but Usyk is a special fighter. One in a million,” Alexander Krasyuk said in an interview with Boxingscene.com.
“Usyk is going to have to go through hell in the first 6 rounds because Joshua is going to try his best and try to use all his power and use his size. Of course, I don’t know everything that he prepared, but Joshua will enter the ring to destroy Usyk, demolish him, and he will do everything possible for this. It will be brutal, so Usyk must be very careful and be sure to use his boxing IQ to keep his distance from Joshua and do his job according to the plan that the team has developed for this particular fight, ”said Alexander Krasyuk in an interview with Boxing Social.
Today in Jeddah, the opponents will hold an open training session, where they will demonstrate their physical fitness a few days before the fight.
Photo by Matchroom Boxing/Mark Robinson.