How do you intimdate your opponent as a boxing pre-fight press convention that’ll inevitably contain two very massive folks staring into every others’ eyes like long-lost lovers sooner or later? Effectively, if you happen to’re Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, the reply apparently is to decorate up as Agent 47 from the Hitman sequence, full with bald head and useful briefcase.
On the presser for his upcoming rematch with fellow thrower of fingers Tyson Fury, Usyk opted to point out up in hairless type carrying the basic swimsuit and gloves combo gaming’s most well-known protagonist that you would scan at a checkout is understood for.
The BBC studies that the boxer even went so far as making his entrance to Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria, which is a pleasant contact, earlier than sitting down and teasing everybody as to what’d be in his briefcase.
Because it turned out, it was a few photographs of Usyk and Fury throughout their first struggle in Could this 12 months, which Usyk received by spilt-decision. One of many snaps, as Fury described it, was “an image of me taking a giant left hand to the jaw”, with the Brit including that he regarded “like Shrek” in it.
So, if you happen to add within the truth Fury reportedly made his entrance on the presser – held at London’s Guildhall – to Aqua’s Barbie Woman, we principally went three for 3 on enjoyable popular culture references right here, which is improbable work by each males. Fury additionally apparently tickled Usyk throughout their face-off, as a result of fight sports activities.
The struggle this was all carried out to advertise, in case you thought it was simply two lads assembly as much as talk about their love of excellent video video games and tacky late 90s pop hits, is ready to happen in Saudi Arabia on December 21. Till then, I assume Usyk might be replaying the Hitman: Absolution mission ‘Struggle Evening’. Here is hoping he additionally took the possibility to try to take down Conor McGregor when Agent 47 tangled with the Irishman in a particular Hitman World of Assasination mission this summer time.
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