{"id":564911,"date":"2026-03-26T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:58:11","slug":"boxing-sheilla-yama-v-nailini-helu-to-be-main-fight-at-upcoming-bx-9-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564911\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Sheilla Yama v Nailini Helu to be main fight at upcoming BX-9 event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eventually, a fight was set up between the two, with Helu having to drop a weight division, from 74kg to 66.4kg, to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Helu said she had made weight by being disciplined, training hard, focusing on her nutrition and running 15km a day.<\/p>\n

Helu and Yama said they were both confident they would win the fight, though Helu claims she has an advantage as her trainer, Lolo Heimuli, used to train Yama\u2019s trainer, Cairo George.<\/p>\n

However, Yama was neither concerned about that, nor about the fact that Helu has quite a lot of experience, including fighting world title contenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have sparred … with Nailini before, I sparred all the girls that she\u2019s fought before, so I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe BX-9 press conference ahead of tonight’s fight was attended by Nailini Helu, Lochlan Duncombe, Andrei Mikhailovich, Sheilla Yama and Nikolas Charalampous. Photo \/ Benjamin Watt<\/p>\n

Both boxers expressed a lot of respect for each other, and neither of them believes there will be a knockout.<\/p>\n

Also at the press conference were Nikolas Charalampous, his opponent Lochlan Duncombe and Andrei Mikhailovich.<\/p>\n

Charalampous almost provoked a brawl when he suddenly challenged Mikhailovich to fight him.<\/p>\n

Mikhailovich declined the offer, saying he does not fight at cruiserweight, though Charalampous claimed Mikhailovich previously said he would fight anyone.<\/p>\n

Charalampous said he was ready to fight him now, when Jabur stepped to de-escalate the situation and promised the fight would happen in October.<\/p>\n

BX-9, including the Sheilla Yama v Nailini Helu fight, will take place at Auckland\u2019s Eventfinda Stadium tonight.<\/p>\n

Tickets on sale via Eventfinda now.<\/p>\n

The event is also broadcast live on PPV on CSN.Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Watt is a retired boxing judge and New Zealand boxing writer with a decade of experience. Watt has also been BoxRec\u2019s New Zealand record-keeper since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eventually, a fight was set up between the two, with Helu having to drop a weight division, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[1929,64,22065,63,7822,16485,802,179911,5946,1913,17954,887,278146,22625,7432,278145,25624,6622,109377,166548,85,1928,319,76526,89089,9995,166549],"class_list":["post-564911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-at","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-be","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-bx9","tag-event","tag-fight","tag-forward","tag-hamilton","tag-helu","tag-looking","tag-main","tag-nailini","tag-opponent","tag-part","tag-ready","tag-sheilla","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-to","tag-tonight","tag-upcoming","tag-welterweight","tag-yama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}