By Scott Gilfoid: All good things must come to an end, and tonight I see former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (33-3, 27 KO’s) getting beaten by former EBU super middleweight champion Piotr Wilczewski (30-2, 10 KO’s) and sent into retirement. Wilczewski and Abraham will be fighting in front of a packed arena the Sparkassen-Arena, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
No doubt Abraham will have the fans behind him tonight with them screaming for every punch he throws and misses by a mile, but he’s not going to win this fight. Wilczewski is going to spank him and end up clowning Abraham badly. I just hope that Abraham doesn’t snap and tag Wilczewski with a cheap shot like Abraham did with American talent Andre Dirrell in their fight in 2010 after Dirrell had slipped on the canvas. Abraham was in need of a knockout to win and looking frustrated as heck.
I guess when Dirrell slipped to the canvas, Abraham got his chance and unloaded a huge right hand against the defenseless Dirrell, who was knocked clean out by the shot. Had Dirrell been on his feet, he would skillfully dodged the shot with his Matrix-like defensive skills, but caught in a sitting position on the canvas, Dirrell had no way of getting out of the way of the sledgehammer right hand that went crashing into the side of his jaw sending him pitching forward onto his left side.
Wilczewski has got to keep his guard up at all times and grow eyes out of the back of his head, because Abraham is dangerous. You never how you’re going to get hit by him. But Wilczewski should be okay as long as he dominated the first two-thirds of the round and then uses his legs to keep away from Abraham when he tries to steal it in the last part of the round. It’s kind of a lazy man’s way of fighting by doing nothing for two and half minutes and then suddenly turning it on in the last 30 seconds to impressive judges, whose memory sometimes goes blank to what occurred in the majority of the round. To beat Abraham types, you outwork him in the majority of the round and then make him chase you like he was against Dirrell. He’s too slow and will never catch up to Wilczewski.
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