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News Oleksandr Usyk has been arrested at an airport in Poland | UPDATE: Usyk is FREE (misunderstanding)

One of the most even keeled HW champs I've ever seen in cuffs? Well, it would probably be the minority of HW champs who were never in cuffs if we're being honest.
 
mozfonky said:
One of the most even keeled HW champs I've ever seen in cuffs? Well, it would probably be the minority of HW champs who were never in cuffs if we're being honest.
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He was traveling to London from Ukraine in order to attend Joshua vs Dubois this weekend. Some type of mistake was made, according to Usyk and the Ukrainian president, which resulted in him being briefly detained. The whole incident sounds like a nothingburger. He was released shortly after and was never processed/booked or anything like that. I'll bet it was just an expired passport or had something to do with his travel documents.

Edit. They thought he was intoxicated, apparently, and unfit to travel I was just told.
 
Kovalev's Man Bag said:
He was traveling to London from Ukraine in order to attend Joshua vs Dubois this weekend. Some type of mistake was made, according to Usyk and the Ukrainian president, which resulted in him being briefly detained. The whole incident sounds like a nothingburger. He was released shortly after and was never processed/booked or anything like that. I'll bet it was just an expired passport or had something to do with his travel documents.

Edit. They thought he was intoxicated, apparently, and unfit to travel I was just told.
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do they arrest everyone they suspect of being intoxicated? it's odd. more to come i guess. Either way, just sounds minor. Being detained isn't being arrested or booked or setenced.
 
mozfonky said:
do they arrest everyone they suspect of being intoxicated? it's odd. more to come i guess. Either way, just sounds minor. Being detained isn't being arrested or booked or setenced.
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I think customs patrol felt it was probably necessary to cuff him given who he is. They tend to treat prizefighters like this for their own safety as a precaution. Yeah, being detained isn't the same as being arrested. Detainment just means you were taken aside and questioned, and in some cases held, but Usyk wasn't held.
 
Kovalev's Man Bag said:
Then he wasn't flying out of the Ukraine. Probably flying out from wherever his current camp is located at. It sounds like he was just jet lagged and drowsy.
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"According to a source, Usyk explained that they were fine to fly and were simply exhausted from a nearly 14-hour travel day from Kyiv, the capital of war-torn Ukraine, that included a 557-mile drive. Between the language barrier and Usyk being adamant that they were not impaired in any way, he was detained."
 
koquerelle said:
"According to a source, Usyk explained that they were fine to fly and were simply exhausted from a nearly 14-hour travel day from Kyiv, the capital of war-torn Ukraine, that included a 557-mile drive. Between the language barrier and Usyk being adamant that they were not impaired in any way, he was detained."
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I see. So he was coming from Ukraine then. Didn't think they would've had to drive that far prior.
 
koquerelle said:
They had been traveling for 14 hours.
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Long-haul travel + even a moderate amount of booze can turn regular people into complete disasters. Extreme fatigue can make you feel far more 'intoxicated' on its own than just getting regularly drunk.

They could have been acting like fuckwits, but it could easily have been out-of-character fuckwittery due to that.

Airline staff also aren't going to want to put up with a messed up HW boxer mid-flight. You'd be taking extra precautions.
 
Ive seen people outright drunk and belligerent on Flights and cruise ships and staff dont bat an eye unless they get really in somebodys face belligerent or physical
 
Kovalev's Man Bag said:
It was probably over something stupid like an expired passport or another form of documentation.
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You don't get arrested over an expired passport, they just put you in a room until they find a plane to send you back to your point of origin.
 
i bet he was detained for smuggling too much feel into Poland
 
Poor guy, wasn't to know double kebabs are illegal in Poland
 
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