Berinchyk's coach named a patriotic goal for the upcoming fight against Mendy

Yehor Golub, the trainer of the WBO International lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk (16-0, 9 KOs), commented on the Ukrainian's preparation for the unification fight against the French EBU title holder Ivan Mendy (47-5-1, 22 KOs).

"The training is generally going well, thank God, no injuries. We train according to the schedule. We are in Montenegro, where the weather conditions are different from ours, the first 3 weeks were very warm. Now the weather is changing, raining, thunderstorms. But we have already done all the main work. We can say that we have reached the finish line in the training process."

"The opponent is experienced, he has many fights behind him, so we are preparing for all 12 rounds. Of course, if there is an opportunity to finish the fight earlier, we will do it."

"Among our sparring partners are professional boxers and top athletes from the Olympic team of Ukraine. One of them is world champion Yuriy Zakharev. We selected fighters similar in anthropometry, who repeat the movements of our opponent. As you saw, sometimes even I have to spar with Denis."

"Our goal is to bring a new title to Ukraine, the European champion according to the EBU version and move further towards the title of world champion."

The fight will take place on December 3 in London. The fight between Berinchik and Mendy will take place on the undercard of the WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora.

We will remind you that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, Berinchyk was in the ranks of the territorial defense. The 34-year-old Ukrainian last fought in December 2021, when he defeated the Russian Isa Chaniev by unanimous decision of the judges.