‘Damaged Goods’: Boxing World Reacts as Deontay Wilder Weighs in at 214lbs For Helenius Fight

Published 10/15/2022, 12:00 PM EDT

In a matter of few hours, ‘The Bronze Bomber’ Deontay Wilder will make his return to the ring. He will face Robert Helenius at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. After suffering two back-to-back losses against Tyson Fury in 2020 and 2021, Wilder will look to make a memorable comeback with a memorable win. According to updates, Wilder has weighed in at 214½ lbs.

For the Robert Helenius fight, Wilder looks comparatively slim. While Wilder weighed in at only 214½ lbs, Helenius weighed in at 253¼ lbs for the upcoming fight. Looking at his records, Wilder has lost a significant amount of weight since 2019.

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In his last fight against Tyson Fury, Wilder weighed in at 238 lbs. Therefore, he has dropped over 24 lbs. In 2009, in the Charles Brown fight, ‘The Bronze Bomber’ weighed in at 220 lbs in the ring.

World Boxing News recently reported that Wilder is lightest since 2009 and has gone 10 lbs below the “bridgerweight”. It is worth noticing that in 2009 when Wilder fought Shannon Gray for a scheduled 4 rounds in the ring (he won via TKO in the first round), he weighed in at only 213lbs.

Fans react to the news of Deontay Wilder weighing 10 lbs under the bridgerweight

Following the circulation of the news that Wilder was weighing 10 lbs under the “bridgerweight”, fans reacted in various ways, keeping his upcoming bout in mind. Here is what some of them are saying :

One user said, “[In] 2009 he weighed like this and knocked out his opponent in the first round.” He further added that there was only one opponent whom Wilder knocked out in the second round, as opposed to six opponents whom Wilder dropped in the first round in the ring.

Another user said, “He weighed 212 lbs against the Fury first fight.”

While another commented saying, “Wow, that’s a huge difference in weight”.

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It is worth mentioning that Helenius would be almost 40lbs heavier than Deontay Wilder in this fight.

Meanwhile, one said, “He is damaged goods”.

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Similarly, one commented saying, “He is going to get hurt”.

What do you think about the weight difference in Wilder’s next fight? Do you think it will give Helenius a special edge? Let us know in the comments below.

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Samrat Sardar is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports and is currently a final year undergraduate student of English literature. A passionate content creator, he has been writing since his high school days, and possesses work experience as a commercial writer for companies such as WordsKraft among others. Samrat believes he fell in love with boxing the day he watched Vasiliy Lomachenko share the ring with Guillermo Rigondeaux.

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Ajinkya Aswale

‘Damaged Goods’: Boxing World Reacts as Deontay Wilder Weighs in at 214lbs For Helenius Fight

Fans react to the news of Deontay Wilder weighing 10 lbs under the bridgerweight

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