{"id":1999093,"date":"2023-08-12T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boxing-joshua-beats-helenius-with-seventh-round-knockout\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T03:36:34","slug":"boxing-joshua-beats-helenius-with-seventh-round-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boxing-joshua-beats-helenius-with-seventh-round-knockout\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua knocks out Helenius in the seventh round of their boxing match."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboxing-joshua-beats-helenius-with-seventh-round-knockout%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Anthony Joshua Knocks Out Robert Helenius to Secure Potential Showdown with Deontay Wilder<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Helenius, stepping in after Britain\u2019s Dillian Whyte was ruled out of \u2064the non-title fight by\u2062 a \u2064dope test \u200ca week \u2063ago, lasted\u200c longer than expected\u200d but crashed to \u200dthe canvas one minute and 27 \u2063seconds into\u200c the\u2062 round.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of the crowd at London\u2019s 02, who had grown\u200b restless with some\u2063 booing already in \u2063the third \u200bround, were heading for the exit by then as\u200d Joshua failed\u2064 to deliver immediate\u2063 fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>The big Briton looked nervous and stiff at the start and strangely \u200dtentative when Helenius, who fought\u200c in Finland only a \u2064week ago,\u2063 appeared to be out on his legs and ready for the taking.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua climbed straight out of\u200d the ring without \u200dsaying a\u2062 word after referee \u200bVictor Loughlin stopped the contest.<\/p>\n<p>He then\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boxing-joshua-beats-helenius-with-seventh-round-knockout\/\" title=\"Joshua knocks out Helenius in the seventh round of their boxing match.\">fist-bumped fans<\/a>, stopping to share\u2064 a swig of a drink \u2063with \u2064watching former UFC champion Conor McGregor, before stepping \u2063back \u200cinside the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>Helenius meanwhile \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/great-white-shark-attack-in-northern-calif-39-year-old-man-bitten-in-leg\/\" title=\"Great white shark attack in Northern Calif., 39-year-old man bitten in leg\">received medical attention<\/a> and some\u200c oxygen before\u200c getting back on his feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew this would \u2064happen, \u2063everyone\u2019s talking\u2062 about the new \u200dAJ and the old\u2063 AJ and after two \u200bor three rounds the \u2064crowd starts to get a little bit impatient,\u201d\u2062 Joshua\u2019s\u200d promoter Eddie Hearn told the \u2064BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe finds the measure of his right hand and he delivers one of\u2063 the knockouts of the year on Robert Helenius\u2026 this \u2063is just \u200bthe AJ you\u2019re going to see now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s\u200c still got to be\u2063 more\u200b aggressive than we saw tonight but there\u2019s a \u200dlot on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 knockout was the 23rd \u2064of Joshua\u2019s career, taking his record to 26\u2064 wins and three defeats, but his first since \u200dDecember 2020 when \u2062he beat Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev in a\u2064 WBA,\u200d IBO, IBF and WBO title\u200b defence in London.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua lost\u2064 those\u2062 belts to\u200b Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>There has \u200bbeen talk of Joshua fighting \u200cWilder, the\u200c former WBC champion, next year but the Briton needs to keep winning to be talked about in the same \u200dbreath \u2062as the American and reigning champion \u200dTyson Fury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for him to\u2062 get up for fights like this,\u201d said Hearn. \u201cThe Wilder fights, the Fury fights, that\u2019s what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \u2064 (Reporting \u200dby Alan Baldwin; 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