12:43 AM ET
Ben BabyESPN Staff Writer
- ESPN Staff Writer
- Previously a assemblage shot writer for The Dallas Morning News
- University of North Texas graduate
Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder marked his much-anticipated instrumentality to the ringing with a thunderous knockout punch that stopped Robert Helenius successful the opening circular of their bout astatine the Barclays Center successful Brooklyn connected Saturday night.
Wilder was making his instrumentality to in-ring enactment for the archetypal clip since helium mislaid to Tyson Fury past October. It was Wilder's 42nd knockout successful 43 vocation victories.