Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua vs. Robert Gabriel Helenius & Filip Hrgović vs. Demsey McKean RBR

To be fair, he should never have lost to Washington. He was whooping his ass from what I remember before somehow managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory after offering him his chin on a platter.

The Duhaupas loss was completely unforgivable.

I'm not saying he definitely did take a dive against the Dosser but there is certainly room for suspicion to believe he might have. But lunging in face first with his hands down into the path of that right hand was beyond amateurish.

FTR, he seems like a really nice guy from the interviews of his I watched this week and he's a private person who likes nature and being away from cities and people so I like him. He's also had a lot of bad luck with injuries which have really hampered his career.

 

That loss to Washington was goddamn mortifying. I hung my head in shame, buried my face in my hands in disbelief and absolute disgust. To blow what was looking like a sure thing after somehow standing up to the bombs of Whyte, as a Helenius was demoralizing.

The Duhaupus loss was as shameful as it was inexplicable.

The suspicions are completely justifiable. But with Helenius, it's probably best to stick with Occam's Razor approach.

I love Helenius, he's a great guy, and damn near impossible to root for.

 

I was actually high on him at one point because he looked pretty good and very powerful when he was coming up prior to all his injury woes.

 

Yeah. His HL reel KOs of Liakhovich and Peter were impressive. He had a really powerful left hook and left uppercut back then too

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I know he suffered a really serious shoulder injury way back in 2011 and it was thought it might put an early end to his career. Apparently it still affected him and was causing him pain for a very long time even after reconstructive surgery and he wasn't able to train properly again until 2018.