By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (34-3, 27 KO’s) came through in a clutch against 2nd tier super middleweight Piotr Wilczewski (30-3, 10 KO’s), beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the at Sparkassen-Arena, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 118-109, 118-109 and 119-108.

Wilczewski showed little in the way power and didn’t help himself by tapping Abraham with jabs instead of throwing them with snap on them. I had Wilczewski winning the first round with his much higher work rate.

Abraham started coming on in the 2nd round, with a couple of flurries that he threw. Most of the shots missed but some got through and it was more than enough to win the round.

The rounds were close from the third until the 5th. Abraham was missing like mad, just throwing wild shots that missed by a mile and made him look like an amateur. Wilczewski didn’t have the arm length, hand speed or the power to make Abraham pay for his countless misses in the same way that Andre Dirrell, Carl Froch and Andre Ward did in their wins over him. Wilczewski also wasted too much valuable time standing in front of Abraham trying to fake him out before throwing anything.

In the last 30 seconds of the 11th, Abraham had Wilczewski hurt and was flurrying on him. Wilczewski did a good job of grabbing Abraham in clinches to survive the assaults, and Abraham messed things up for himself as well by missing so many punches. The guy fought like he was blind or something because he couldn’t hit the side of the barn if he was standing six inches in front of it tonight. I haven’t seen worse punch accuracy from anyone as long as I’ve lived. He just looked like a primitive tonight in the ring.

Abraham was standing there with his gloves glued to his head and he wasn’t going to move, and I don’t understand why Wilczewski wasted so much time trying to use feints instead of just throwing. But he didn’t have the power anyway and this was just another case of Abraham’s management picking out a beatable guy with no power for him to beat. They weren’t going to put him in with anyone good that would make him look an ape in the ring.

Wilczewski was docked a point in the 7th for accidentally bumping heads with Abraham. I didn’t see any warnings given to Wilczewski and it seemed like a rediculus call by the referee. But it showed what Wilczewski was up against in this fight because he wasn’t getting any calls in his favor with Abraham throwing rabbit punches, holding and hitting and landing forearms. Those are things that the referee should have taken points away for, not accidentally bumping heads. I guess Wilczewski should be thankful that was the only point deduction he received in the fight.

The fight was a lot closer than the scores would have you believe, however, as Abraham gave away a lot of rounds by missing badly with his shots and just covering up against the ropes. He looked just as lazy as he usually does and was very, very beatable. Abraham came out the winner of the fight, but let’s not get things twisted. Wilczewski is a 2nd tier super middleweight and not an actual contender that Abraham was in with. Had this been a good fighter like Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Edwin Rodriguez, Anthony Dirrell, Adonis Stevenson, Robert Stieglitz or Lucian Bute, Abraham would have trounced. The win for Abraham only puts off for a little while his eventual weeding out of the division. It’s coming soon and there’s not much Abraham can do about it other than continue to fight Wilczewski type 2nd tier fighters rather than the best.