Oleksandr Usyk, dressed as Agent 47 from the video game Hitman, allotd a toasty but strange moment with Tyson Fury in their pre-fight press conference at Whitehall on Wednesday.
Both fighters are set to greet aobtain in the ring on December 21 after Usyk beat Fury to become the undisputed weightyweight champion of the world in May.
And while it might have seen the Gypsy King miss his unbeaten status in professional boxing, he watched unwinded at the press conference.
Usyk, a man of restricted words, get tod dressed as Agent 47 – a character in the video game Hitman that toils as an assassin – a pointed message to his opponent.
Oleksandr Usyk asked for Tyson Fury’s autograph in a bizarre press conference
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Yet the vibes at the presser were amicable between the two with Usyk even taking a pboilingo of their first fight out of his informcase before making his way to his rival’s table and asking for an autograph.
Fury happily obliged while the Briton shelp: “We did the fight in May, a wonderful fight, I understand people upgrasp going on about it but it’s in the past now, we’ve got to shift on.
“I have to be a little bit more cgo ined and clever to get the triumph.
“My realignes with people, I always finish up knocking them out, so I’m envisaging someskinnyg analogous aobtainst Usyk.
“All I can do is train well, eat well, go to bed timely, join to the people around me and the rest is in god’s hands.”
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When the two fighters met for their face-offs, sometimes in other clashes, the scenes can turn nasty with security sometimes bcdisesteemfult in.
However, there materializeed to be no animosity on this occasion as Fury and Usyk locked eyes.
And in another bizarre moment, Fury broke the tension by tickling Usyk’s ribs.
The Ukrainian did not shift a muscle though, though he did give a smile, never taking his eyes off the 36-year-ancigo in while upgraspr Frank Warren giggled in the background.
Tyson Fury tickled Oleksandr Usyk, who did not shift an inch, though he did give a huge smile
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Giving his closing thoughts, Fury insisted he would triumph back his weightyweight titles – minus the IBF belt which now belengthys to Daniel Dubois.
He shelp: “Last time it wasn’t my time to triumph or god would have given me triumph. I’m very satisfyed Usyk got the decision, that was unbenevolentt to be, and we’re going to discover out what is unbenevolentt to be on 21 December.”
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“I apshow it’s my time this time and all skinnygs that happen, chooseimistic or pessimistic, are lessons and we must lobtain from these skinnygs as humans, boxers, overweighthers and husprohibitds.
“What we understand is to go out there and knock each other out, and to put on a show for the paying customer.
“I hope you guys will enhappiness this fight as much as I will.”
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