The elite class athletes have a tendency to push their limits. They undergo very intense training sessions to achieve the best out of their body and emerge as a leading hero in their respective field. Oleksandr Usyk, the unified heavyweight champion, is also among this league, who experiments with different techniques to enhance his game volume. Once, while going through an extremely hard session, the champ fainted in the pool. Fortunately, his coaches rescued him.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, ‘The Cat’ said, “You’re swimming and suddenly you feel such a pain in your knee and you think you can’t go, you just can’t continue. A muscle’s so tense and the pain’s just unbearable. The pain is in your shoulder, your knee, or even the tips of your moustache.”

According to the 35-year-old, every fighter reaches a breaking point in a fight. So once he was going through a hard session and pushing the threshold of breaking, he forced himself not to give up, and it led to a horrible incident.

“You know I’m a bit crazy and so my coaches are carefully watching me. If I faint, they’ll rescue me. Once, holding my breath underwater, I fainted for a moment and immediately was taken from the pool, “, Usyk said.

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Notably, this happened to him when was an amateur boxer.

What is Oleksandr Usyk doing now?

Earlier this year, Usyk stunned his British rival and former unified heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua in the rematch. This confirmed his title in the division. Following the event, he called out the WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury for the undisputed heavyweight clash.

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Fury, who announced his comeback, has his eyes on different fighters. Though he wanted to lock horns with Usyk, there is no update on talks between their promoters.

Now, it would be interesting to see who Usyk faces apart from Fury in the coming months.

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