Boxing-Usyk presented with Ukrainian painting ahead of Dubois fight


FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's unified world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk attends a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

(Reuters) - Heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk received a religious painting as a gift from the Ukrainian army ahead of Saturday's title fight with British challenger Daniel Dubois in Wroclaw, Poland.

The Ukrainian's promoter Alexander Krassyuk told a press conference on Thursday that the painted wood had once packaged shells used against Russian forces in the defence of the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut.

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