Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and late sub Robert Helenius spoke about Saturday’s showdown in London and seen on DAZN.
Anthony Joshua: “The principles remain the same, worry about myself. Robert and I sparred years ago, we shared the ring, but I’ve sparred with so may styles, competed with so many styles, the objective remains the same – victory, and victory by any means. There’s no overtime in boxing so I have to be on my A-game and inflict pain to get the victory…it would be silly to underestimate him, or anyone. I have to take him deadly serious.”
Robert Helenius: “This fight offer came to me after my fight at the weekend. I was going on vacation with my family but not anymore, here we are. We had a good camp behind us, and we feel ready. I am ready to fight, otherwise I wouldn’t be here…I will give everything to win this fight.”
Heavyweight division, anything can happen with one punch.
Lol actually it can’t and only a casual would say that.
Sack, Then you know nothing of boxing especially at the highest levels of HW. Very few heavyweights dance around and run. Now, Joshua since being knocked out by ruiz, he is a mover, but he still has pop. I can see Joshua getting caught and losing by knockout a lot now.
You forgot what happened with Andy Ruiz. Let alone a lot others.
Shaved sachs, I guess all your thumbs down show how knowledgeable you are with boxing.
@Harry Sachs: Yep, no heavyweight fighter in boxing history has ever been caught with only one punch and been badly hurt in the fight or ko’ed. Casual fans can look for themselves, it always has been at least a dozen punches minimum that has been able to hurt a fighter in any way. Ja, right.
Hey Henry, did I post one punch knockout? No! I said anything can happen with one punch. A good fight and wham, one punch can turn the tide and lead to a knock out. Learn to read super knowledgeable boxing fan and super fan of Harry sack!
If you don’t believe then watch Tyson vs Douglas 42:1 underdog. Welcome to boxing.
Why can’t all fights go from face off to final press conference
Good to see a face off without pushing and cursing.
After Tyson and holifield were gone heavyweight sucks
Heavyweight fights were great from 1990’s to earlier
But now I prefer watch “”america got talent “ the show
The best year of heavyweight division were in this order:
1970’s
1960’s
1950’s
1980’s
1990’s
My top heavyweight fighters ever are :
1 George Foreman
2 mike Tyson
3 Muhammad Ali
4 rocky marciano
5 evander holifield
6 joe Louis
7 joe frazier
8 Ezard Charles
9 Larry Holmes
10 Tyson fury
Mención honorífica
Lennox lewis
And for me the worst heavy fighter ever is…..Anthony Joshua
Joshua was promoted and moved well. Some may call me crazy but I am not convinced he could have beaten a prime Frank Bruno. Look at Bruno’s ko % and some of the guys he knocked out. He only ever looked bad against Tyson who was just all wrong for him…and a lot of others. Lewis and Witherspoon both had tough fights with him and Bonecrusher was way behind when he got to him in the last round. I only bring up Bruno because he was a UK heavyweight hero like Joshua yet Joshua seems to have done better belt wise. Still though not certain that means he is really better. Great fantasy fight for the UK.
George Foreman the strongest fighter ever
Most on that list are American champions only. Ali was a fraud. At least half his fights were fixed one way or another. Holyfield was a steroid user. Those boxers never fought a single Russian, eastern European, Cuban, or black african. On the other hand no one has dominated a sport like the Klitschkos – absent from your stupid list – as is Jack Dempsey and others – did heavyweight boxing since Babe Ruth ruled baseball in the 1910’s, 20’s, and 30’s, and they did so at a time when boxing was more international in scope than it had ever been before, and heavyweights were bigger and stronger than they had ever been before.
This wins stupid comment of the day!
Dixie, Ali was a fraud. No doubt. Still is and so is his grandson. He didn’t list Klitschko. Lennox should be on there too. Not my favorite.
Ali Fraud????
Ali is the heavyweight boxer with the best quality oposition ever
One of the reason klitskho brothers were kind of successful was because there were not great boxer by the time
Vitally struggle with old Lenox Lewis
What “Russian, eastern European, Cuban or black African” fighter did Ali forget to fight? I guarantee you won’t be able to name anyone of substance.
Klitschko fought in a dead-HW division. In super-fights they always fell short. Vitali was TKO’d by an out-of-shape semi-retired Lewis in round 6 and Wladimir lost to Fury via decision in Germany. I wish you would stop pussy-footin around the issue and state what your real issue is.
TYson: beat up by Holifield , Lewie Buster Douglas and the british boxer. You drinking the ………….
Have actually seen all of them-Fury would not be in the top ten.
Damn you must be over 100 yrs old
I’m pretty sure the 30s were better than the 90s
Rocky marciano was very strong too for to be 5’5” tall
Marciano was 5’10”.
Joshua fighting a tomato can! But, knowing joshua’s weak chin, I’ll say hellenius has a chance if he connects flush!
I agree
This is a much more interesting fight for AJ and Robert both. Hope they both have the heart and chin to make it interesting.
Hope Helenius is making good money to be a last minute punching bag
Hopefully he ends up being more than just a punching bag, but I think this ends with Helenius flat on his back. As suspect as AJ’s chin is, Helenius’ is probably worse. Dude was stopped by Johann Duhaupas and Gerald Washington, and is 39 now. Plus, that 1st round starching by Wilder couldn’t have helped. Wouldn’t mind RH proving me wrong, and he certainly has a puncher’s chance, but my money would be on AJ in this one for sure.
USF, kinda agree. Looked at some previous footage and when Helenius gets caught he really does go down quite easily and stays down. Hope he is able to stay in the fight though a good couple of rounds and give a good account of himself.
Helenius is too inconsistent, but at his best could certainly give Joshua real problems. Both have real power to end the fight. Will definitely be watching this one.
I thought Chisora had retired after the brutal beating he got from Fury. The man is playing Russian roulette with his health.
Let’s see if having Derrick James in his corner pays off. It certainly didn’t for Spence. Dude is overrated. Sucks the killer instinct out of his fighters.