Robert Helenius told YLE in Finland late last night that he would think about the future but wasn’t ready to hang up the gloves just yet.
Helenius also admitted he tired a bit in the later rounds against Anthony Joshua – and added that with more time for preparations the outcome could have been different – which is a valid point. Stepping into a major twelve round fight on seven days notice is a gamble – and one that in this case backfired, as Helenius was knocked out in the seventh round.
While Helenius did his best the same can’t be said for DAZN – at least not in Scandinavia where we experienced big technical problems all evening and not a word of explanation. The good thing about it was that we only had to endure a few rounds of the Derek Chisora vs Gerald Washington fight.
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EBU super welterweight champ Milan Prat (19-0) is currently training in Spain and will then have a tune up on August 25 in Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania).
If all goes he will then headline a Legacy Sports Management promotion in Oberhausen (Germany) on October 14 in what is likely to be a defence of the WBA I-C title, which he also holds.
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Legendary British promoter, manager, matchmaker, agent and cutman Paddy Byrne has passed away at the age of 94.
Byrne had a brief and bad career as a professional boxer in the late 1940’s / early 1950’s but then turned to the business of the sport where he did it all but was especially well known as a cutman.
He was also matchmaker for Barney Eastwood when future super star and world champ Barry McGuigan was up and coming, promoted shows in and around London, and was a major player as an agent. In 1968 he met Danish promoter Mogens Palle and the two worked together for decades.
In later years Paddy was mainly a cutman and cornerman for the Palle fighters in Denmark before retiring.