Usyk the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world showed a more serious side here when he met Dubois and his team ahead of the rematch.
IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois will fight Usyk for all the belts on July 19th at Wembley Stadium in London.
At one point this week in the meeting of the two teams in a carpark, Usyk broke character completely and told Dubois and his team:
“I will pull your eyeballs out of your head”
Usyk and his team are not playing.
Neither are Dubois and his team of course.
These are professional fighters at the end of the day and it is impossible to control them.
That is not who they are as people on the inside.
Once a fighter always a fighter, it cannot be switched off and Usyk and Dubois, while have great self control, when they are near one another ahead of this rematch there is potential for more flash points like this.
Hopefully the fighting can be done only in the boxing ring on July 19th.