“The Ukrainian told about a serious illness in childhood”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
World Champion by WBC, WBA, WBO and IBO Ukrainian Alexander Usik He said that he was severely ill in pneumonia as a child and was close to death.
“I had bilateral pneumonia, it went into tuberculosis, but such, thank God, did not happen. I visited 320 days out of 365 in the hospital.
I was 8-9 years old, I was somewhere in the second grade. I was lying in the Chernihiv tub dispensary. Then I began to communicate with God. After the hospital, I started going to church, ”Usik said.
Earlier, Usik called the boxer who is the best of him, the Klitschko brothers and Lomachenko.