What time is the Deontay Wilder-Robert Helenius fight tonight? Live stream, TV info, time
Deontay Wilder faces Robert Helenius on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The fight will be live streamed on by FITE TV.
Wilder still has big plans and a bigger right hand, just like when he was heavyweight champion.
He wants to be that again, though he doesn’t have much time. Wilder turns 37 next week and said he only intends to fight until he’s 40.
His climb starts Saturday when he returns from consecutive losses to Tyson Fury to fight Robert Helenius at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
Should Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) win, another title shot could come quickly. The fearsome power he displayed during his five-year reign as WBC champion — and even during the back-and-forth second defeat to Fury after he’d lost the belt — always makes him a fighter worth watching.
Fury took the title in a rout in February 2020 and got up from two knockdowns to retain it by knocking Wilder out in the 11th round of their third fight a year ago.
A victory over Helenius (31-3, 20 KOs) in the Fox Sports pay-per-view would not only be Wilder’s first since stopping Luis Ortiz in November 2019, but could put him in the running to face three-division champion Oleksandr Usyk.
A title would be a big deal to Helenius, the 6-foot-6 Finnish fighter who had the look of a journeyman for much of his career before a pair of knockout victories over Adam Kownacki, the latter on the undercard of Fury-Wilder III.
When is Wilder-Helenius?
Deontay Wilder faces Robert Helenius on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).
Will it be live streamed?
The fight will be available for live stream on FITE TV for $74.99.
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FITE reaches more than 10 million viewers and a community of over 4.4 million registered users.
Will it be televised?
The fight will not be broadcast on traditional TV.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.