Unified World Heavyweight Champion Oleksandr Usyk stated that he could continue the fight if the referee started counting the knockdown after a prohibited blow Daniel Dubois in the fifth round.
“If you want to feel this blow, I must hit you. But I cannot do this, because I have no intention of hurting a person. Listen, you can endure a blow to the stomach, to the liver, but when it flies lower, something seems to be on fire inside. It just hurts. You have to be patient and move on.
What would happen if the referee opened the score? I think that I would endure. It would have been very painful, Daniel would have immediately rushed to finish me off. But I think I would have gotten out of this situation, ”Usyk said in an interview with the Seconds Out YouTube channel.
Recall that on August 26, Usyk knocked out Dubois in the ninth round in the main event of a boxing evening in Wroclaw, Poland.
