Abraham defeats Miranda!
Saturday, September 23 2006
A definite fight of the year candidate
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By Karl Freitag
In an unbelievably vicious fight, IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (22-0, 17 KOs) won a courageous twelve round decision over previously unbeaten mandatory challenger Edison "Pantera" Miranda (26-1, 23 KOs) at the Rittal Arena in Wetzlar, Germany. Both fighters landed big shots early on. Miranda stalked the champion much of the time, while Abraham covered up, however when Arthur did open up, he was effective. Both fighters continued to fight after the bell to end round two. The ebb and flow continued in round three as both fighters held up well to the bombs unleashed by the other. Abraham had a good round four, cracking some very hard shots off Miranda's head. Miranda hurt Abraham with a hard punch early in in the fifth (almost certainly breaking his jaw). Later in that round, with Abraham already bleeding heavily from the mouth, Miranda intentionally headbutted him. The ring doctor recommended that Abraham shouldn't continue, however referee Randy Neumann correctly ruled that the bleeding wasn't caused by the headbutt and told Abraham that if he doesn't continue he'll lose by TKO. The gutsy Abraham chose to continue and finished the round. Abraham boxed the stalking Miranda in the sixth as blood continued to stream out of Abraham's swollen mouth. In the seventh, Miranda was deducted two points for a low blows. Abraham tried to finish Miranda in the eighth, but Miranda weathered the storm and both fighters continued to land bombs. The brutality continued in rounds nine and ten, and Neumann was showing signs of stopping the fight due to the bad condition of Abraham's jaw. Action was stopped in the eleventh due to another low blow by Miranda, and Neumann deducted another point. Miranda came out looking for the KO in the twelfth, while the injured Abraham was just looking to get to the final bell, which he did. In the end, scores were 114-109, 115-109, 116-109 for Abraham. The champion was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.
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