Robert has had hand problems so he always uses soft gloves. Actually the complaint was on Duhaupas gloves; as Helenius' team put it: he was wearing "killer gloves". Truth to be told I don't think the gloves had any effect on the end result. The root of problems was on Helenius' conditioning: he was gassing pretty bad already after couple rounds. But like I said at least part-reason to that was on health-related issues which got diagnosed only later.
He was diagnosed with asthma on March-April thereabouts. The word is he's a newborn man after getting treatment for it. But we will see of course.
Oh dear, oh dear! Seriously, planning a fight with a British heavyweight these days is like playing roulette.