Adam Kownacki remains as beefy as ever.
The Polish-born, Brooklyn-based heavyweight contender weighed in Friday at 265¼ pounds for his title eliminator against Robert Helenius on Saturday at Barclay’s Center in Kownacki’s hometown.
That’s three quarters of a pound less the career-high 266 Kownacki (20-0, 15 KOs) weighed for his last fight, a unanimous-decision victory over Chris Arreola in August.
Helenius (29-3, 18 KOs) weighed in at 238½ even though, at 6-foot-6½, he’s 3½ inches taller than Kownacki.
Kownacki’s weight doesn’t seem to slow him down. He threw an eye-popping 1,047 punches in the 12-round Arreola fight.
Helenius is coming of a second-round knockout of Mateus Roberto Osorio but was stopped himself by Gerald Washington in eight rounds in his most-recent meaningful fight.