Oleksandr Usyk is not thinking about his future and his place in boxing history. “I’m just Alex, the Ukrainian guy,” he insisted when I spoke to him after midnight at Wembley Stadium. He finally looked tired when he retreated to his dressing room, where religious icons covered the walls and surfaces. “I go home now and spend time with my family and children,” he added. That was all he said about tomorrow’s fights.
An hour earlier, his fists had ruined Daniel Dubois in the fifth round, dropping the British boxer twice before the towel came in; the referee, Michael Griffin, called it off at the same time. Dubois was nearly up but out of his head, and he stood in silence for several minutes trying to process what went wrong. He looked stunned.
