Tuomas Kyrö’s book Fist – in the ring Robert Helenius is published this week.
Robert Helenius, 39, has fought as a professional 37 times. JUSSI ESKOLA
Robert Helenius spent the first years of his professional career in the traditional German Sauerland stable. The beginning went well, but soon Helenius started to feel tired.
Tuomas Kyrön in the recent Helenius book Fist (WSOY) Sauerland naturally plays a big role.
Sauerland doesn’t allow himself to recover from injuries. Matches will not be postponed. Information about health matters is given little or no information at all. A boxer must keep his mouth shut and fight broken.
Helenius injured his shoulder before the 2011 season Derek Chisora -match.
The organization decides that Robbe will be match fit on the agreed date. The sold-out Hartwall arena and television contracts are more important than health. The hand is not cut, even if it would have been a relatively easy operation.
The first punch hits Chisora hard. At the same time, the clavicle goes across next to the neck, on the right hand side. Robbe does not use the backhand at all in the match.
Helenius won the match by points (sd). Many thought the verdict was wrong.
Shortly after the match, Helenius ended up having a big operation. Confidence in the team had taken a severe hit.
They talk about all kinds of good and beautiful things, tell about the big accounts waiting in the future. They loan Robbe money, which will be deducted from future match fees. It’s amazing when after the matches nothing is left on the hand but new injuries and surgical scars. Sauerland repays the debt with interest. The percentages that belong to the main contestants in television contracts evaporate, after a big matchnobody is in the same financial situation as before.
For Oktoberfests
When Helenius decided to move back to Finland with his family, Sauerland invited him to Oktoberfests to negotiate.
Helenius got drunk.
The conversation with the ladder ends when the big boss points out the excessive drinking. Robbe asks what the old man is really explaining, don’t stop a Finnish man from drinking booze when you have first stolen his whole life. He takes a stool next to him, raises it in the air and threatens to hit. The management run away, the coach and manager come to calm the situation. Robbe announces that he will beat every one of them.
Negotiations continued later at Helenius’ home. He was surprised at the compensation he received and asked for the euros needed to move.
Now anger overwhelms, self-control and self-control fail. Robbe slams his fist on the table with full force and says he will kill the mulkeros if they don’t leave his house immediately. Robbe is crying and shaking, he has never been so angry. “How do you slave traders sleep at night?” Robbe asks.
Helenius moved from Germany to Finland in the fall of 2013. He didn’t box for two years, from March 2013 to March 2015.
The italicized passages are Tuomas Kyrö’s text from the book Nyrkki – kehäss Robert Helenius (WSOY) to be published on November 8.