Helenius ready to take it to the next level by beating Liakhovich on August 27th
August 21st, 2011
By Jason Kim: Undefeated heavyweight contender Robert Helenius (15-0, 10 KO’s) takes a slight step down fight against former WBO heavyweight champion Sergiy Liakhovich (25-3, 16 KO’s) next Saturday on August 27th at the Messehalle, in Erfurt, Germany. Helenius, 27, will be defending his WBA Intern-Continental and WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight titles.
This makes it a natural fight for the winner of the Chagaev-Povetkin bout to face Helenius. However, Chagaev and Povetkin have other ideas, as they both would like to face one of the Klitschko brothers for one of their big stadium fights. You can’t blame them, though, because the money made fighting one of the Klitschkos would be a lot bigger than defending it against a dangerous puncher like Helenius. There’s only risk in facing Helenius, whereas with the Klitschkos at least you get a huge payday in losing.
Helenius, ranked #2 WBO, #3 IBF, #9 WBA, #13 WBC, has looked very good in beating former heavyweight champions Samuel Peter and Lamon Brewster recently. Helenius stopped Peter in the 9th round this past April in a fight where Peter was knocked down twice in the 9th round before the fight was halted. In the Brewster fight, the 6’6″ Helenius dominated the shorter Brewster from start to finish, stopping him in the 8th round.
Liakhovich is badly in need of a win against Helenius to revive his career. Liakhovich has lost two out of his last four fights, but he hasn’t been active regularly in the past four years and has rarely fought. Liakhovich has won his last two fights against fodder opposition and will be taking a big step up against Helenius.
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To Jackson: If you look closely to Helenius record you can see he didn’t knock out his first four oponents. Those fights were 4 rd fights which indicates Robert is a slow starter, nothing more. He has 10 Ko/Tko in his last 11 fights and that is higher ratio than Vitali has.
he is throwing himself to the wolves by talking about a title shot. hes not nearly ready. i want him to develop, fight contenders, work his way up….(look where this approach got david haye?)
dont want to throw him to the wolves in the least, just want to be realistic. we are in an era when fighters dont fight other contenders, they just fight washed-up “names” then leap into a title fight. and then, predictably, lose. helenius is talking about a title fight—and its ridiculous. hes far from ready…..
i think helenius will win by ko.dont think the former champ will make it to the top again.
Lets see helenius ko’d a former champ in only his 15th fight? Not bad for a prospect. At least he didnt waste his time on a piece of c r a p like holyfield.
Let Helenius develop before you throw him to the wolves mate.
i am not impressed with beating washed up “names”. as of yet, helenius has never fought a fighter ranked in the top 10. liakhovich is another “name”. only worse than peter in that he has only one good win in his career–and that was against an overrated brewster. peter was 20 lbs overweight when helenius fought him and he was only half there. still, he fought helenius on even terms till the knock out. add to that helenius only has a 65% knock ratio–so his power is overrated as well. (vitali around 90%)