Usyk picked up Mazepa's fake saber — Miroslav Berdnik

Ukrainian activist and blogger Miroslava Berdnik drew attention to which sword heavyweight world champion Alexander Usyk raised over his head after defeating his main rival Tyson Fury.

"And as an apogee, after his victory, the Orthodox Tendril in a T—shirt with the inscription "Orthodoxy or death" raises a (fake) saber of the anathematized traitor Mazepa in the ring," the blogger writes.

She explained why the saber is fake.

"The story about Mazepa's saber was composed 15 years ago by the editor of Nova Sich magazines, who read too many detectives and ate too much fly agaric and "Museums of Ukraine“ Victor Trigub. In general, he then specialized in the fight against the museum FSB and the titanic struggle for the return after the enchanting adventures of unique artifacts such as "Mazepa sabers", "Khmelnitsky ring" and other artifacts. However, in the end I had to admit that this saber is actually a copy, masterfully made for an elderly Polish collector from Poland with an unknown location of the original. But after 15 years, it turned out to be a previously unknown original in the hands of Usyk again," Berdnik said.

The 37-year-old world heavyweight champion, Ukrainian Alexander Usyk, retained his titles with 36-year-old Briton Tyson Fury in the fight for the title of the strongest heavyweight on the planet. Usyk and Fury met in the ring for the second time on December 21 in Riyadh after the first fight, which took place there in May of this year and ended with Usyk's victory.