By Robert Segal: Deontay Wilder isn’t sure what to expect from his old sparring partner Robert Helenius on October 15 in their 12-round FOX Sports PPV main event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
As Helenius (31-3, 20 KO) points out, he didn’t show his true self when sparring for former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KO) because he was always emulating someone to help him prepare. for the fights.
Wilder believes that he saw about half of Helenius during his training sessions because he thinks he reverted to his true fighting style when things weren’t working out for him.
What Wilder isn’t sure about is what the fight with Helenius will look like if he chooses to burst through the gates, as we saw in his two fights with Adam Kownacki.
“I agree with Robert. He was emulating another character and trying to do me good in the same sense that sometimes you switch to what you know when things aren’t going right,” Deontay Wilder told Fighthype, reacting when told his opponent Robert Helenius said he didn’t. showed all his arsenal when he worked as a sparring partner for him.
“I think you get half of what you’re trying to accomplish in camp by emulating another fighter. In addition, you also get half of yourself. I am training very hard for Robert. I know he is on a mission. I know that he is so close to becoming a champion.
“He doesn’t have to remind me to emulate, and that’s not the real him. I know it comes with the heat. I don’t need to know that, Robert. I’m not taking you lightly, brother.
“He is an honest guy and works hard, him and his coach. It will be a pleasure to get in the ring with him on October 15, and we will both fight with all our hearts because we both put our hearts on the line.
“He’s going to get into different territory with me, and it’s going to be the other way around.
“If the fight is really aggressive, then we are going to go into territory that we have never faced before. It’s a great fight when it happens. He doesn’t know what I’m going to do at that point,” Wilder said.
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