Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk was arrested Tuesday at Kraków Airport in Poland. While he wasn’t detained for long, it remains unclear exactly why he was arrested.
The incident was captured on video, showing Usyk being led away in handcuffs by Polish soldiers.
Usyk and his trainer, Sergey Lapin, were denied boarding after an airline official determined they were not fit to travel, a source told ESPN.
The heavyweight champ explained that they were simply exhausted from a nearly 14-hour travel day from Kyiv and were fine to fly, according to a source (a 896-kilometer drive from the capital of war-torn Ukraine.) Between the language barrier and Usyk being adamant that they were not impaired in any way, he was detained.