“I’m very feel.” Krassyuk explains the origin of Usyk’s legendary phrase

Alexander Krassyuk, former promoter of the undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, shared the story behind the meme-phrase “I’m very feel.”

“The first legendary meme — ‘I’m feel, I’m very feel’ — has its own story. It was in Germany, in Berlin. We had a fight against Marco Huck in the World Boxing Super Series, Usyk was already a champion. The day before the fight — the weigh-in.

As usual, we already had our routine: we walk on stage, the weigh-in happens, the microphone goes to Usyk, and I’m right next to him translating, helping. But in that moment, when we were going up on stage, someone from the German side called me for an interview.

I didn’t manage to return to the stage in time. And when I came back — I see they’re already asking Usyk questions. The simplest ones: ‘How you feel, Alex?’ And Usyk has all that energy in him — that fighter energy, that Cossack spirit — and he goes: ‘I’m feel.’ Like: I’m about to, you know… ‘I’m very feel,’ straight from the heart.

We come back to the locker room, and our cutman from Canada — an English speaker — goes: ‘Sasha! It’s “I am feeling good,” “I feel okay,” “I feel perfect.” “I’m very feel” — never!’ And Usyk: ‘Alright, okay.’ But then the chain reaction begins — YouTube clips, someone remembers it here and there.

Then we walk out for the actual fight, and the host of the entire show asks Oleksandr again: ‘Alex, how you feel?’ Well, naturally — you have to continue the line. Later, we even trademarked that “I’m feel,” released the “I’m very feel” t-shirts. And that’s how Usyk became ‘I’m very feel,’” Krassyuk said.