Closing in on this weekend’s heavyweight fight between Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven, airing live in front of the Egyptian pyramids this Saturday, DAZN takes fans behind the scenes of the training camps of both fighters as they prepare for the event.
As specifically highlighted with respect to Usyk, the 39-year-old fighter is training as hard as ever and seems to perform as capable as he ever has, causing those close to him to admire at the consistency.
“I do this everyday,” Usyk said of one of his hard
training sessions. “I like training, I like hard training because I think God, Jesus Christ, like this, clean my soul — I think. I don’t know [if] it’s true, if it’s not true but when I train hard, I every time pray.”
Usyk continue on to explain how every detail of his training camp is carefully managed from the training to the diet, even including the time he’s allowed to eat (and, of course, the content).
Later in the video we check in on Rico, who explains that he’s tapering down his training sessions as the fight draws near, and he’s just mostly focused on the fine tuning his approach.
“I like the challenge,” Verhoeven said of this fight with Usyk. “I just do not like to be comfortable…I like the challenges in life because I like to grow and I like to learn, and I like to get better, especially on the highest level. So this opportunity rose up, so we rose to the occasion.”
Expanding on his mindset, Verhoeven shares some of his personal background and difficult upbringing which forced him to learn life lessons that molded him into becoming a world champion kickboxer. Oleksandr Usyk will be his latest hurdle but Verhoeven feels prepared for the moment.
You can watch the full behinds the scenes segment in the link at the top!
