Deontay Wilder evidently decided that added weight isn’t going to help him in the ring.
The former heavyweight titleholder weighed in at 214½ pounds for his pay-per-view fight against veteran Robert Helenius on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
That’s Wilder’s lowest weight since his first fight against Tyson Fury in 2018, when he weighed in at 212½. The 6-foot-7 Alabaman weighed a career high 238 for his third meeting with Fury a year ago, a fight he lost by 11th-round knockout.
Helenius weighed in at 253¼, the most he has weighed since he came in at 262¼ when he fought Ganzalo Omar Bazile in 2016. Helenius weighed 246 for his second a fight with Adam Kownacki, a sixth-round knockout on the Wilder-Fury card a year ago.
In another featured bout on Saturday’s card, former titleholders Caleb Plant and Anthony Dirrell made weight for their super middleweight titleholder eliminator. Plant weighed 167¼, Dirrell 167¾. The division limit is 168.
Also, Frank Sanchez and Carlos Negron weighed 247¾ and 244½, respectively, for their heavyweight fight.
And bantamweights Gary Antonio Russell and Emmanuel Rodriguez weighed 116½ and 117¾. The division limit is 118.
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