Fury vs Usyk: Oleksandr Usyk reveals how he known as off his staff to cease a brawl after Fury fracas | Boxing Information

Oleksandr Usyk revealed he defused what may have been an unpleasant brawl forward of Saturday’s undisputed title combat with Tyson Fury.

On Monday, John Fury, the daddy of the WBC heavyweight champion, was on the centre of a fracas with members of Usyk’s staff.

Footage appeared to point out John Fury lashing out together with his head in direction of Stanislav Stepchuk. John Fury was later pictured with blood coming from a head wound.

Usyk described how he prevented his staff from escalating the confrontation additional.

“I said, ‘Hey, Team Usyk back. Step back, please.’ Listen my team is very good if you want to fight, not boxing, street, shooting, knives, wrestling. But I said: ‘Hey, hey guys, please back.’ We must do good behaviour,” Usyk stated.

“My friend [Stepchuk], is a powerful guy. A street guy. Did you see the video, he was like a pit bull. I said ‘Stop!’ Okay, [they did].”

The Ukrainian considers the incident disappointing. “Of course it’s discipline,” he stated. “It is unhealthy, it is simply unhealthy.

“A stupid situation. I don’t want to call John bad because I don’t know, because it’s not my life.”

However Usyk insisted it is going to be no distraction forward of Saturday’s heavyweight championship conflict.

“For me it doesn’t matter, I think it’s bad behaviour from Tyson’s team. Listen, we are professional athletes, we’re not street fighters. It’s a big event for our people, for the UK and Ukraine,” he stated.

“If you want a situation like to destabilise my team, it’s not possible. Because it’s not only professional sportsmen. It’s professional soldiers, it’s professional sportsmen, it’s professional people.

“This case for me does not matter, it is solely motivation for my staff.”