Oleksandr Usyk has gave his opinion on Anthony Joshua’s public outburst following his rematch with him post-fight which saw Anthony Joshua explode in fury and frustration that he came so close yet so far in attempting to recapture his IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO world heavyweight titles from Oleksandr Usyk. The outburst saw Joshua throw two of Usyk’s belts out of the ring and took to the microphone to bark back at his critics saying that he is not a heavyweight of years gone by due to his size
“I’m not a 12-round fighter, look at me, I'm a new breed of heavyweights, Mike Tyson, Sonny Liston, Jack Dempsey,” Joshua said. “You don't throw combinations like Rocky Marciano. I’m 18 stone, I'm heavy, it's hard work.”
Usyk in an interview with his own Youtube channel said that he pitied him and thought he was a fool.
“You know, I thought, ‘What a poor fool,’” Usyk said in a video posted on his official YouTube channel, USYK17, which provided English subtitles. “Well, I thought, ‘why should you be doing that?’ He reminded me of a little boy who wanted to play with a ball, but it was taken from him, being angry, he eventually decided to throw it over the neighbor's fence so that the ball landed next to the fierce dog. So was it such a smart decision in the end?”
Yet Usyk also said he sympathized with Joshua and came to the PR-embattled fighter’s uncharacteristic post-fight antics.
“Yes, he was freaked out and, I think, no one should blame him for it,” Usyk said. “He had been training, has believed in something, and then he lost the bout for the second time.
“I guess his physical condition was pretty good, but, thank God, [mine] was a bit better. It might be a reasonable explanation for the outbreak of verbal diarrhea.”
