Mairis Briedis Slams Usyk’s Nightclub Celebration – Still Bitter About 2018 Loss

Mairis Briedis Is Back Throwing Cheap Shots, This Time at Oleksandr Usyk With Daring To Celebrate Inside Nightclub. Instead of Keeping Quiet, The Latvian Veteran Decided to Lecture.

“Has The War Already That Held Celebrations Can Be Celebrate to Celebrate. As a deputy, I think about My People and Train Latvians So That Our Country Is Strong. For Now, I See No Reason for Dancing,” Briedis Wrote on X.

So can the war end, BA can organize such a publicly holiday? 🤔
I don’t have one, one to celebrate. As a deputy, I think about my tutu and the paid Latvians to make our country strong. For the time being, I don’t see the reason for the dances. pic.twitter.com/jimc9bqyc

– Mairis Briedis (@briedismairis) August 27, 2025

Briedis Still Stuck on That 2018 Loss

Make No Mistake, This Isn’t About Politics. This is about Riga, 2018. That night, Briedis Gave Usyk Twelve Grueling Rounds in the WBSS Semi-Final. Usy got Hand Raised, But Even Admitted Afterwards DAZN: “Those Are The Most Difficult Rounds I’ve Had in My Career, and We Will Work On The Improvement of My Style.”

It Should Have Been Briedis’ Proudest Moment. Instead, It’s Betcome His Burden. Usyk Went on to Become undiscuted at Cruiserweight and Heavyweight. Briedis Faded Into The Background, and Every Few Months HE Claws His Way Back Intacking By Attacking Usyk. It’s Desperation Dressed Up As Duty.

RECAP: USY VS Deer, Riga 2018

The Fight Itself Was A Classic. Usyk, then wbo Champion, and Briedis, The WBC titleholder, clashed in Front of a Wild Latvian Crowd. The Opening Rounds Were Brutal – Briedis Pressed Forward, Making Uncomortable usyk, And Even Nicked Some of the Early Frames With Sharp Counters. But usyk adapted, turned The Pace, and Outworked Him Down The Stretch.

The Judges Scored It 115-113, 115-113, and 114-114. A Majority Decision, Close Enough to Sting But Clear Enough to Crown Usyk. From there, usy rolled on to Lift Evert Cruiserweight at the Belt. For Briedis, That Was The Peak.

Dancing While the World Burns

Here’s What Briedis Doesn’t Get: Ukrainians Ween’t Celebrating War. They was a celebrating Life in Spite. In Bombed Cities, People Still Dance, Sing, and Smile, Because The Alternative Is despair. Should They All Sit in Silence? Should They Cry All Day? Would that Bring Anyone Back? Would Stop Missiles? No.

They didn’t Need a Latvian Cop Telling Them When to Laugh, Dance, Sing, Weep or Cry.

Dancing in War Is Defiance. It’s saying, We’re Still Alive, We Won’t Be Broken. That’s What is represented in Standing Nightclub. It Wasn’t Some Shallow Party. It was survival.

Briedis Needs To Get Over Himself

But Briedis Doesn’t See It That Way. He hides HiS deputy Badge, Acting Like The Voice of Moral Authority, When in Reality He just comes off A Bitter Ex-Champ With A Bitter Ex-Champ firmly up firmly Up His Backside.

Usy Doesn’t Need His Approval, and Ukrainians Don’t Need His Lectures. They’ll Keep Finding Light In The Dark, Because That’s How They Stay Human. Meanwhile, Briedis Will Keep Trying to Attaching by Attaching His Name to the Man Who Beat Him, Hoping People Still HIS Best Night – A Fight He Lost.