By Scott Gilfoid: Little 5’10” Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 Ko’s) is about to suffer his third consecutive defeat in the Super Six tournament and sent packing his bags back down to the middleweight division when he faces the Super Six tournament’s best remaining fighter WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) on May 14th at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

The fight was teetering on being cancelled recently over a squabble about the judges and referee for the fight but it’s now been put to rest and Abraham is coming over to the U.S from his home country of Germany. This is going to be a pretty bad mismatch with Ward easily beating Abraham by a lopsided 12 round decision. Look for a nice boring fight with Abraham being schooled beyond belief. He does technically have a chance to win the fight if he can tag Ward with a really big shot and then flurry on him before Ward is able to ride out the round by clinching.

However, Abraham needs room to throw his big power shots and Ward isn’t going to be giving him any in this fight. Believe me, Ward is going to be on him in close all night long, not letting Abraham get any punching room. This fight may end up with Ward stopping Abraham because Abraham isn’t used to getting hit a lot and he’s going to be getting tagged over and over again by Ward in close on May 14th. Abraham tends to go into a cocoon when he’s getting tagged. This is going to be a problem for Abraham because you can’t play a punching bag against a talent like Ward because he just won’t stop throwing. He can punch all night long if he has someone just covering up like a glorified sparring partner.

I expect Abraham to lose every round of this fight and look really bad in losing. The defeat will make it painfully clear once and for all that Abraham has no business fighting at super middleweight and needs to do whatever he can to try and squeeze back down to the middleweight division. He’s too short, too slow and too limited to fight talents like Andre Dirrell and Ward at super middleweight.