By Chris Williams: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (33-3, 27 KO’s) feasted on the weak opponent Pablo Farias (19-2, 11 KO’s) that his promoters tossed to him last Saturday night for an easy 5th round TKO win in super middleweight action in Offenberg, Germany.

Matched against a fighter that was short even for welterweight standards, Abraham was able to manhandle the 5’8″ in knocking him down three times and getting a 5th round stoppage. The negative side of this was that it may have planted some ideas in Abraham’s head and made him think he can still compete at 168lbs rather than him getting a clue that he’s no good at this weight and moving back down to 160 where he belongs.

After the fight, there was already talk of Abraham facing other top fighters in the super middleweight division. I think that’s a really bad idea. It’s already been firmly established that Abraham has no business fighting at super middleweight. If you have any doubts about that then look at how way over his head Abraham looked in losing to Andre Dirrell, Carl Froch and Andre Ward in the Super Six tournament.

Those losses weren’t just by accident. You don’t lose that many fights in a short period by mistake. But Abraham was already making excuses for those losses recently, saying he fought too passively and didn’t throw enough punches. Yes, those were to of his biggest problems but it’s a lot more than that.

Abraham is just plain amateurish with how he fights and even if he could fix those problems, he’d still get dominated by those aforementioned fighters and guys like Lucian Bute and Anthony Dirrell. Abraham lacks the height, reach, speed and technical ability for him to do anything at this weight. I think he can maybe pull off some decent wins over guys like Robert Stieglitz or Renan St. Juste but that’s about as far as I see the guy going at this weight. He needs to move down before he gets beat some more.