By 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.