Deontay Wilder's touted next opponent Robert Helenius is pushing through a legal case to be given the next shot against the winner of Anthony Joshua's rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
The giant Finnish heavyweight is being lined up as the return fight for Wilder, who declared earlier this year that he was not retiring from boxing despite losing his trilogy with Tyson Fury. And Frank Warren leaked last week that the plan was for Wilder to fight Helenius in October.
But the Finn believes he has a legal argument that he is the No.1 contender to the Usyk vs Joshua 2 winner's WBA title, having won a final eliminator before the pandemic. He was ranked No.7 with the WBA, who are next in line to call a mandatory challenger for Usyk or Joshua, when he upset the odds and defeated Adam Kownacki in March 2020 just days before the world shut down.
