{"id":454166,"date":"2023-08-08T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454166"},"modified":"2023-08-08T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:00:49","slug":"robert-helenius-to-face-joshua-as-whytes-replacement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/robert-helenius-to-face-joshua-as-whytes-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Helenius to face Joshua as Whyte&#8217;s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Helenius will take Dillian Whyte&#8217;s place as Joshua&#8217;s opponent in the heavyweight fight, taking place London O2 Arena on August 12 Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT\u2019S ON \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyjoshua?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@anthonyjoshua<\/a> will take on Robert Helenius in London \ud83e\udd4a<\/p>\n<p>Live and exclusive August 12th on DAZN.\u2060 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gchWBuTtPW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gchWBuTtPW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAZNBoxing\/status\/1688848833541758977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Helenius was called in with less than a week&#8217;s notice after Whyte was disqualified from the event due to failed voluntary test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a true Viking that is willing to face any challenge at a moment&#8217;s notice,&#8221; the Finn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not an opportunity I was going to let slip away. I plan to make the most of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helenius lost his last fight in a rather convincing way &#8211; by a first-round knockout. He has never challenged for a world title and has only fought last Saturday securing a third-round TKO win over Mika Mielonen in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wasn&#8217;t in the script,&#8221; Joshua commented about his new opponent. &#8220;I am laser focused on the win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should Joshua win he could face WBC champion Deontay Wilder, which could occur some time in early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Helenius will take Dillian Whyte&#8217;s place as Joshua&#8217;s opponent in the heavyweight fight, taking place London O2 Arena on August 12 Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,20839],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18480,1299],"acf":{"announce":"The Finn steps in at less than a week's notice","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454166"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454166"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}