By: Sean Crose
He’s back. Former WBC heavyweight player Deontay Wilder will return to the fight on October 15. His opponent will be fellow heavyweight Robert Helenius. Their fight will be a scheduled 12th round and will be the main event of the Fox Sports/PBC pay-per-view broadcast. The Wilder-Helenius battle will take place at Brooklyn’s Barclay Center and will mark the first time Wilder has fought 42-2-1 in over a year. The man’s final fight ended in a knockout loss to the Alabama native, as arch rival Tyson Fury stopped him for the second time in three fights.
As for Helenius 31-1, he will have an impressive win – his second in a row – over the Adam Kownacki game, which was beaten by the same Wilder-Fury match. While the bearded Finnish native certainly knows how to turn off the lights, he lost to Gerald Washington and Johann Duhaupas by knockout. Wilder, for the uninitiated, may be the toughest fighter in heavyweight history. How tough is Wilder as a puncher? All but 1 of his 22 wins have come in the distance. Even Fury, who beat Wilder twice (their first bout ended in a draw), was knocked down a whopping four times by the man known as The Bronze Bomber. Whether Helenius can handle that kind of power remains to be seen.
Then again, it will be interesting to see how Wilder composes himself in the ring after a double defeat to Fury. Such large-scale defeats can cost a fighter a lot of time. On top of that, Wilder didn’t handle his losses well. With that said, the future will be really bright if he returns to form against Helenius. It would be unwise to dismiss Wilder if he then faces top heavyweights like Anthony Joshua or Oleksandr Usyk… and no one knows how Fury might turn out from one moment to the next. follow.
Former IBF super middleweight player Caleb Plant will also have a Wilder-Helenius card. Plant 21-1, known as Sweet Hands, will face former WBC super-middleweight player Anthony Dirrell in a scheduled 12-round bout. Plant’s final fight is against the one and only Canelo Alavarez. That fight last November ended with Plant being stopped at the 11th. Dirrell’s 34-2-2 final fight was a hit against Marcos Hernandez, whom Dirrell stopped. in 4 in the card under Canleo-Plant.
