{"id":454472,"date":"2023-08-12T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454472"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T10:16:46","slug":"joshua-takes-almost-8-times-more-money-from-helenius-fight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joshua-takes-almost-8-times-more-money-from-helenius-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua takes almost 8 times more money from Helenius fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua will fight Robert Helenius tonight at the O2 Arena in London. The main event of the night was originally slated to be a rematch between AJ and Dillian Whyte, but the match was canceled after White tested positive for doping.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua will step out on the ring for the first time since defeating Jermaine Franklin by decision in April. His opponent Helenius fought in Finland last week, defeating Mika Mielonen by TKO.<\/p>\n<p>The change of opponent will deprive Joshua of a huge amount of money, but the Briton will still bag a decent amount. There is currently no confirmed number for how much both boxers will receive, but it was reported that there would be a total fee of \u00a39.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u203c\ufe0f Anthony Joshua and Robert Helenius exchanging words in a heated final face-off: &#8220;Have you got a problem with me? Either we&#8217;re gonna fight now or we&#8217;re gonna fight tomorrow, either way we&#8217;re gonna fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatchroomBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MatchroomBoxing<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9YntZ81VZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q9YntZ81VZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelBensonn\/status\/1689985300334882816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the Sun newspaper, Anthony Joshua will receive a guaranteed fee of \u00a38m, while his opponent Helenius will pocket \u00a31.5m. AJ also should have received a large percentage of the pay-per-view sales if the fight with Wyatt had taken place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua will fight Robert Helenius tonight at the O2 Arena in London. The main event of the night was originally slated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":454476,"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":"AJ will pocket \u00a38m from the clash at O2 Arena in London","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\/454472"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454472"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454472"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}