Egis Klimas, the manager of three-belt heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk was the special guest atthe WBC`s weekly press conference in Mexico City. Klimas said the looming unification blockbuster against WBC champion Tyson Fury will be the hardest and most exacting fight of Usyk's career. Sitting beside WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, Klimas grinned broadly and confidently in the build up to the February 17th fight. However, neither he nor Usyk are under any illusions about the task which lies ahead, or the amount of work which remans to be completed before that first bell rings. Klimas said: “we`ve been working to get this fight for a long, long time and finally we did it! Definitely it isn`t going to be an easy fight. It will probably be the hardest fight of Oleksandr`s career. He`s confident, but simultaneously he knows full well that there`s going to be a lot of work to do. He`s a hard worker, a good athlete and a very good fighter.
“It`s not going to be easy to get sparring partners, because Tyson Fury is very tall, with a long reach and he has a very awkward style and he`s heavy, so this is going to be the biggest challenge. But I have no doubts that Oleksandr is going to win. Factors will be his footwork, his intelligence, his boxing IQ. I wouldn`t even say Fury has big power. He has a lot of weight and he leans on fighters. That`s how he wears them down. But it won`t be easy to beat down Oleksandr.”
The significance of being undisputed heavyweight champion is not lost on either Fury or Usyk. Egis stressed: “Don`t forget that as cruiserweight champion Oleksandr already held all four belts. Nobody believed that he could go so far in the heavyweight division. Nobody believed that he could come in and dominate the heavyweight division which is doing. I`ve been blessed to work with Oleksandr. Of course this means a lot to me. He`s a very good human being, he has no envy, he always smiles, is happy he enjoys greeting people. It is a pleasure to be with Oleksandr. This will be a great show. The biggest show!”
