Helenius vs Chisora: Chisora Demands Rematch On Neutral Ground
by Scott Christ on Dec 5, 2011 7:59 PM EST
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British heavyweight Dereck Chisora had what should have been a breakout win on Saturday in Helsinki. Instead, he's lost in the shuffle after suffering a split decision, robbery loss to Robert Helenius.
But Chisora is only demanding one thing: A rematch, on neutral ground. At the post-fight press conference, he made clear that he felt he was robbed (via BoxRec News):
"I would love a rematch, but I want a rematch on a neutral ground, but not here or in London – we find somewhere else, I think me and him will sell out. We have to have a rematch between January or February.
"I did get robbed, most people in here know that I got robbed and even his promoter knows that I got robbed, so now we are going to make noise – I want a rematch. I said it before that this guy cannot beat and he did not beat me. I took all of his shots. In the first round, yes, I was kind of warming up and he did hurt me and I jumped on him. This after that I took control of the fight and I want a rematch."
Wilfried Sauerland, the head of Helenius' promotional company, didn't say no to a rematch, but did note that Helenius owes Alexander Dimitrenko first crack at the European title he picked up with his bogus victory over Chisora.
[ Related: Chisora Robbed in Finland ]
I should say something else that Chisora said during the presser, because it's true: This is not Robert Helenius' fault and nobody blames him. Helenius fought hard the whole fight. It was a really good heavyweight fight, and Helenius has been in my two favorite heavyweight fights of the year. I consider him a must-watch action guy right now. He just got out-gunned by a more determined guy who pressured wonderfully and put in a career-best performance. He didn't score the fight.
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Thanks for bringing up that it's not Helenius' fault...
I feel like a lot of time fighters get jumped all over when a decision goes their way, even though they have no influence on robberies. On that note, robberies are nowhere near as common as boxing fans seem to make them, but this was indeed one.
Helenius may not be at fault but he did stick to his guns saying he believed he won the fight. I prefer it when a fighter admits that there was something wrong like Mares did or admits,not always in so many words, that they didn’t win. An example from MMA was Rampage Jackson who knew he stole the fight against Machida, I’m sure we can think of other boxing situations where the beneficiary of the robbery was at least honest about it.
With that said I also like Helenius a lot and I believe like he said in the post fight that he injured or broke his right hand, it’s the only explanation why he wasn’t throwing when he had Chisora in the corner.
Helenius would score a whole bunch more points with me if he does like Mares did, admit to something being wrong and agree publicly to a rematch and then talk about he’s going to kick his ass.
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I don’t doubt he hurt his hand.
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by Scott Christ on Dec 5, 2011 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
I’m sure Helenius believed he won the fight. Most world class fighters don’t like to admit defeat. It’s pretty much a given they are going to raise their hands at the end of the fight…………even if they lost every round.
Either way, Helenius was given a early X-mas present in Finland………….pretty ironic.
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If you thought that this was going to be a fair decision. I hate how they rob a fighter of the hard work they put in denying him/her of having their hand raised in the ring.
by tacklerford on Dec 5, 2011 10:17 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
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