paused his career to join the front line with the troops. at the press conference on thursday, they presented him with an award, the army. this fight has been timed to coincide with ukraine s independence so it has been a very celebratory mood all week, lots of people waving the ukrainian flags and chanting his name and all the set piece media events that have been open to the public this week will stop he is a massive favourites, a huge global star, 40,000 fight fans shoehorned into this arena tonight and they have come to see their national hero in action. how this fight goes much will depend on how daniel dubois copes with the pressure, it is very intimidating here for some oleksandr usyk the massive favourite to win, for good reason as well. but if daniel dubois could win tonight, it will be one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history. bigger perhaps than when buster douglas knocked out mike tyson all those years ago. it knocked out mike tyson all those ears auo. , . ,