Robert Helenius

Robert Helenius
Data
Birth Name	Robert Gabriel Helenius
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Finnish
birthday	2nd January 1984
place of birth	Stockholm
style	Left delivery
size	1.99 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	30th
Victories	28
Knockout victories	17th
Defeats	2

Robert Gabriel Helenius (born January 2, 1984 in Stockholm , Sweden ) is a Finnish professional boxer .

Amateur career

Robert Helenius grew up in Porvoo, southern Finland , and started boxing at the age of 14 at the local club Porvoon Nyrkkeilyseura . He was trained by his father Karl Helenius and started his amateur career in 1998. Helenius was Finnish super heavyweight champion three times in a row from 2003 to 2005, and in 2001 he finished second.

His first international success was the third place in 2000 at the European Championships for the Cadet Age Group (U-17) in Patras , where he failed in the semi-finals against Croatian Mario Preskar. The following year he reached the semi-finals again at the Junior European Championships in Sarajevo , but lost to his opponent Islam Timursijew from Russia prematurely. In 2002 he took part in the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Cuba , but failed in the first round of the tournament.

At the 2005 World Cup in Mianyang, China, he lost again prematurely in the round of 16 against the Uzbek Rustam Saidov , bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Sydney . At the 2006 European Championships in Plovdiv , he made a name for himself when he was able to beat all opponents prematurely on the way to the final and only then lost to Islam Timursiev on points in the final battle. Since December 2006 he fought in the German boxing Bundesliga for the boxing department of Hertha BSC , the Sauerland boxing stable had secured the option of a possible professional contract after the 2008 Olympic Games .

Due to a training injury, however, he was unable to participate in the 2007 World Amateur Championships in Chicago , which were also a qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games. When following the first European qualifying tournament in Italy Pescara he first succumbed to for Azerbaijan starting Russians David Arschba. Assba then reached the semi-finals without any problems and was considered the favorite to win the tournament, but was then disqualified by the AIBA as not eligible to start for Azerbaijan. Assbasa's place in the semifinals was then raffled among all boxers who had lost to him up until then and went to Helenius, who, however, could not use this opportunity and lost to the Croatian Marko Tomasović . In the second European qualifying tournament in Athens he also missed the last chance to participate in the games in Beijing when he was defeated by Jaroslawas Jaksto from Lithuania .

Professional career

After failing in the Olympic qualification, Helenius became a professional at Wilfried Sauerland's boxing stable in Berlin . Since his professional debut he has been trained by Ulli Wegner . Helenius won his first professional fight on May 17th, 2008 in Bayreuth against the German Gene Pukall (14-11) with a technical knockout in the first round. In 2009 he was able to defeat the former English champions Scott Gammer and the Ukrainian Taras Bidenko prematurely.

His first major success as a professional, he posted in January 2010 by defeating ex-WBO title holder Lamon Brewster . He scored a knockdown in the second round; this was only the second time in Brewster's career that he had gone down. The fight ended with a technical knockout in the eighth round and ended Brewsters' comeback attempt, which subsequently ended his career. After a points win in March 2010 over Nigerian Olympian Gbenga Oluokun , Helenius won the fight against Gregory Tony on August 21, 2010 for the vacant EBU- EU heavyweight title. Helenius defeated the French by a technical knockout in the sixth round after he brought Tony down a total of four times. He defended the EU title in November 2010 against Attila Levin from Sweden with a technical knockout in the second round.

In 2011 Helenius defeated the Nigerian Samuel Peter and the Belarusian Sjarhej Lyachowitsch , both former short-term world champions of the associations WBC and WBO, each prematurely by knockout in the ninth round. He was then nominated for a fight for the European Championship, as an opponent Dereck Chisora from Great Britain was determined. The fight was hosted by Sauerland Event on December 4, 2011 in Helsinki and ended after twelve rounds with a split score (2 × 115-113 for Helenius, 1 × 115-113 for Chisora) in favor of Helenius, who was in a controversial decision of European title was awarded.

After almost a year off due to a ligament injury, he defeated Sherman Williams on November 10, 2012 on points (99-91, 99-93, 98-93). In March 2013 he also won unanimously (98-93, 97-93, 98-93) against Michael Sprott . After another almost two-year injury break, he met the Hungarian Andras Csomor on March 22, 2015 in the Tondiraba Ice Hall, whom Helenius won early by knockout in the first round. On June 13, 2015 he met the Georgian Beqa Lobjanidze in Vaasa Areena , whom Helenius won by knockout in the third round. On December 19, 2015, he won the Hartwall Areena against the German Franz Rill after Erkan Teper had renounced shortly before.

Helenius got his first World Cup chance on April 2, 2016 in the Helsinki Hartwall Arena for the WBC Silver Championship against the French Johann Duhaupas . Helenius lost this fight by knockout in the 6th round.

His first fight after the missed World Cup chance was on September 10th, 2016 in the Baltichallen in Mariehamn against the German Konstantin Airich . He won this fight by knockout in the 1st round. A few weeks later, on December 17, 2016, he defeated the Argentinian Gonzalo Omar Basile by TKO in the first round.

List of professional fights

28 wins (17 knockout wins), 2 losses (1 knockout loss), 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Helenius
2008	17th of May	Oberfrankenhalle , Bayreuth, Germany	Gene Pukall	Victory / TKO 1st round
	June 7th	Mellringehallen, Örebro, Sweden	David Vicena	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	5th September	Nojesfabriken, Karlstad, Sweden	Ergin Solmaz	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	November 8th	Jako-Arena , Bamberg, Germany	Nikola Vujasinovic	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	November 28th	Hartwall Areena , Helsinki, Finland	Remigijus Ziausys	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
2009	February 28	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg, Germany	Enrico Garmendia	Victory / TKO 6th round
	May 9	Jako-Arena , Bamberg, Germany	Oezcan Cetinkaya	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	30th May	Hartwall Areena , Helsinki, Finland	Scott Gammer	Victory / KO 6th round
	29th August	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westf.), Germany	Serdar Uysal	Victory / KO 6th round
	November 7th	Arena Nürnberger Versicherung , Nuremberg, Germany	Taras Bidenko	Victory / abandonment 3rd round
2010	January 30th	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg, Germany	Lamon Brewster	Victory / TKO 8th round
	26th of March	Toolon Kisahalli, Helsinki, Finland	Gbenga Oloukun	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	August 21	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt, Germany	Gregory Tony vacant EBU European Championship	Victory / TKO 6th round
	November 27th	Hartwall Areena , Helsinki, Finland	Attila Levin EBU title defense vacant WBO Intercontinental World Championship	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2011	2nd of April	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westf.), Germany	Samuel Peter WBO / WBA Intercontinental Title Association	Victory / KO 9th round
	August 27	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt, Germany	Sjarhej Lyachowitsch WBO / WBA Intercontinental title defense	Victory / TKO 9th round
	3rd of December	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Dereck Chisora vacant EBU European Championship WBO / WBA Intercontinental title defense	Point victory (polyphonic) / 12 rounds
2012	November 10th	Helsingin Jäähälli, Helsinki, Finland	Sherman Williams	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2013	March 23	GETEC Arena , Magdeburg, Germany	Michael Sprott	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2015	March 22	Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn, Estonia	Andras Csomor	Victory / TKO 1st round
	June 13th	Vaasa Areena , Vaasa, Finland	Beqa Lobjanidze	Victory / KO 3rd round
	19. December	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Franz Rill vacant EBU European Championship vacant IBF International World Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2016	2nd of April	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Johann Duhaupa's WBC Silver Championship	Loss / KO 6th round
	September 10	Baltichallen, Mariehamn, Finland	Konstantin Airich	Victory / KO 1st round
	December 17th	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Gonzalo Omar Basile	Victory / TKO 1st round
2017	17th of June	Kalev , Tallinn, Estonia	Evgeny Orlov WBC Silver Championship	Victory / TKO 6th round
	28th of October	Principality Stadium , Cardiff, Wales	Dillian Whyte WBC Silver Championship	Point defeat (unanimous) / 12th rounds
	(Source: Robert Helenius in the BoxRec database )

Private

Robert Helenius, who has both Finnish and Swedish citizenship, lives with his fiancée and three children in the municipality of Lumparland , Åland , and is pictured with his family on an Åland Post postage issued in June 2014 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ boxingscene.com: Helenius Grabs Controversial Split Decision Over Chisora
2. ↑ Erkan Teper resigns European Championship title wn.de December 8, 2015
3. ↑ Helenius sends Rill to the boards sport1.de December 20, 2015
4. ↑ Information no longer available there ( Memento from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Robert Helenius in the BoxRec database
• Portrait on the website of the Sauerland-Boxstalls boxen.com