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Usyk stakes claim as best man in boxing after making Fury eat his words | Donald McRae

Boxing is full of unsavoury people but it also produces extraordinary men. The Ukrainian champion is one of them

As Oleksandr Usyk walked towards us just after three in the morning, resplendent in his purple tracksuit while carrying Eeyore under his arm, his promoter let slip a gentle cry: “Here he comes, the best man in boxing …”

Alex Krassyuk is not a traditional boxing promoter, being a much more understated man than most of his contemporaries in this riotous old business. But his pride was understandable in the immediate aftermath of Usyk’s decisive second successive defeat of Tyson Fury.

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