Usik: It was proposed to change my citizenship in Russian

The absolute heavyweight champion did not want to change the Ukrainian passport, since he considered himself a patriot of his country.

Ukrainian boxer Alexander Usik said that it had been suggested by several countries to become their citizen and to defend other national teams.

"Russia is also on this list, but I did not even think of giving up the Ukrainian passport because I considered myself a patriot of my country and I sincerely wished that Ukraine would flourish." God did it for me to be born in Ukraine, so I will always be a Ukrainian "- Usik said in an interview express.online .

Alexander had previously promised to move to Ukrainian spoke.

Recall, Usik became the boxer of the year by version Yahoo Sports iSport.ua ESPN and Sports Illustrated He also claims a similar title from WBC.