Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter explains reason behind airport arrest in Poland

Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter has explained the reasoning down the Ukrainian heavyweight champion’s little apprehension successful a Polish airport.

Footage connected social media emerged precocious connected Tuesday evening showing Usyk being detained by uniformed officers earlier being led distant with his hands cuffed down his back.

The incidental was resolved soon after, with the Ukrainian not disclosing the crushed down his statement but simply labelling the concern arsenic a ‘misunderstanding’.

However, Usyk’s promoter, Alex Krassyuk, has present confirmed that the erstwhile undisputed heavyweight champion was detained aft helium forced himself disconnected a Ryanair formation erstwhile a subordinate of his squad was denied boarding.

‘While waiting for boarding, Oleksandr’s person fell dormant connected the seats successful the waiting area. After the announcement of the commencement of boarding, Usyk woke up his person and said that helium would hold for him astatine the exit,’ helium began.

‘After passing the passport and boarding walk check, Usyk was near to hold for his friend. It each started with this.’

Usyk is said to person gone disconnected the formation to retrieve his person – who was successful a antithetic boarding radical to the boxer – but swiftly discovered hose unit had prevented him from boarding arsenic they believed helium was drunk.

‘Employees of the hose someway strangely established the information of the different Oleksandr [Usyk’s friend] arsenic “deep alcoholic intoxication” and did not let him to committee the flight,’ Krassyuk explained.

‘Usyk began to find retired the crushed for the denial with Ryanair employees, but they refused to springiness an explanation, calling the police.’

The boxer is said to person refused to alert without his person and asked for Ukrainian diplomatic adjunct earlier helium was threatened and subsequently enactment successful handcuffs.

‘It is hard to accidental whether the lunar eclipse clouded the consciousness of the employees of the hose and the police, oregon the tendency to get to cognize the outstanding heavyweight champion,’ Usyk’s promoter Krassyuk added.

‘So, convey God, the incidental is over. We volition hold for an authoritative apology and compensation from the hose Ryanair and the explanations from the Polish instrumentality enforcement officers.’

A spokesperson for the Krakow portion borderline guards, meanwhile, said: ‘The 2 men had their travel cancelled by the bearer and had their rider presumption cancelled.

‘They did not privation to permission the gross erstwhile requested and that’s wherefore we were called successful to instrumentality attraction of the situation.’

Prior to his arrest, Usyk had been expected to question to London to beryllium ringside for Anthony Joshua’s IBF satellite rubric combat against Daniel Dubois astatine Wembley Stadium this Saturday.

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