Arthur Abraham

Abraham 167.6, Stieglitz 167.3 – Official Weights

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abraham545(Photo Credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: 35-year-old WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) successfully made weight today, coming in at 167.6 pounds for his title defense against former WBO 168lb champion Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) on Saturday night at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Stieglitz weighed in at 167.3lbs. He says he knows how to beat Abraham. The plan will likely revolve around Stieglitz throwing nonstop punches for three minutes of every round. It worked for Stieglitz in his second fight against Abraham in 2013, but it failed last year, when Stieglitz gassed out in the last four rounds and lost a 12 round split decision.

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Abraham wants bigger fights after Stieglitz

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abraham5555(Photo credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: If WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4 28 KOs) can somehow get past #1 WBO Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) in their fourth fight together on July 18th, the Abraham says he wants to look to try and unify the 168lb titles by facing the other champions in his weight class.

Abraham says he doesn’t want to keep fighting Stieglitz. The money has got to be good for Abraham to keep facing Stieglitz over and over again, but it looks like Abraham wants to try and actually accomplish something rather than fighting Stieglitz in endless rematches.

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Arthur Abraham not worried about Stieglitz’s power

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abraham6(Photo Credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: The fourth fight between WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) and former WBO 168lb champ Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) is only two and a half weeks away for their fight on July 18th at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany.

Abraham’s trainer Ulli Wegner has been bragging about how Abraham has been dropping bigger cruiserweights left and right during training camp. Wegner doesn’t say who these so-called cruiserweights or, so we’re left having to take what he says at face value rather than being able to see for ourselves or from the cruiserweights about these sparring sessions.

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Abraham and Stieglitz square off on July 18th

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) will continue with his long series of fights against Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) when the two of them face each other for the 4th, and not likely the final time, two months from now on July 18th at the Gerry Weber Stadium, in Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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Arthur Abraham faces Robert Stieglitz on July 18th

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Image: Arthur Abraham faces Robert Stieglitz on July 18th(Photo Credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: WBO 168 pound champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) will be facing his old nemesis #1 WBO Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) in their fourth encounter two months from now on July 18th at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany. They’ve fought previously three times with Abraham winning two of them and losing one.

Abraham, 35, says this will be his last fight against the 33-year-old Stieglitz, but I doubt it. If the WBO keeps giving Stieglitz a high ranking, we’ll likely continue to see Abraham and Stieglitz fight in the future.

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WBO orders Abraham to face Stieglitz again

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Stieglitz_Abraham_V6P1926By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Organization is doing WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham a huge favorite by ordering him to face #1 WBO Robert Stieglitz within the next 90 days rather than having Abraham take on an arguably tougher contender like Gilberto Ramirez.

Abraham has already fought Stieglitz three times in back and forth fights that took place in Germany. By the WBO ordering yet another fight between Abraham and Stieglitz, they really did them both a big favor, because if Abraham has to defend his title against one of the younger contenders with talent, he’ll likely lose.

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Paul Smith thinks he narrowly lost to Arthur Abraham

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smith455By Scott Gilfoid: #4 WBO Paul Smith (35-5, 20 KOs) seems to think he narrowly lost to WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) in their fight last Saturday night at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany.

Smith lost the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 117-111. However, Smith believes that the fight was level after six rounds, and that he won the 11th and 12th rounds. Smith also thinks that the 10th round was a tossup round that could have gone either way. I’m really not surprised that Smith thinks the fight was close, because he also thinks he won the first Abraham-Smith fight last year, and I saw that as another clear win for Abraham.

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Abraham defeats Smith; Price stops Costa Junior

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (42-4, 28 KOs) won an impressive 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night against challenge Paul Smith (35-5, 20 KOs) in their rematch at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany. Abraham flurried on Smith in every round to dominate the action.

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Hearn expects crowd to help Paul Smith beat Arthur Abraham tonight

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smith4422(Photo Credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says Paul Smith (35-4, 20 KOs) will be bringing over a large crowd of Brits tonight in Smith’s title shot against WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (41-4, 28 KOs) at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany.

The arena sets up to 17,000 fans for boxing events, and it’s estimated that between one thousand and two thousand Brits will be in attendance to cheer Smith on the victory.

It’s unknown if the adrenalin that the 32-year-old Smith will get from the potential 2,000 British fans will be enough to make up for what he lacks in the talent department, but we’ll have to see.

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