Usyk: "I don't need to intimidate my opponents, they do it themselves"

"Fear? No fear. It's all in my head," he said. Oleksandr Usyk in an interview with DAZN. - What am I, babay, or something, to intimidate opponents? I don’t really need to intimidate my ...

“For me, the most terrible opponent is me. Next year I will be boxing for 20 years. My first workout was sparring. As a result, I got a good hit in the face, after which the coach said: "This is terrible." I say: "Nothing!" "Will you come tomorrow?" “Yes, I’ll come tomorrow,” I say. "I don't think you'll come tomorrow." "Why?" "I think so". "Not. I will come, ”Usyk said about his dialogue with the coach after the first workout.

“This is the most terrible drug, it cannot be cured. I enter the ring liberated, free. It's like closing a bird in a small cage and keeping it for some time, and then going out into some big field and opening a cage for it and see how it will fly, how it will flap its magnificent wings and soar up to the sky, and there will be so spin, get high. This is something that happens to me when I enter the ring, ”Usyk added.