Last saturday Robert Stieglitz effectively ended the career of Arthur Abraham. From the first round Stieglitz dominated a befuddled Abraham who fought out of his patented high guard and unpredictable offense. After Abraham fought Edison Miranda the first time, I thought he would not have much left, even though he won that fight he took a tremendous beating, the kind that ends a career. However he fought on but to me never seemed to be the same fighter. What kept him in fights is his good defense and destructive power which could quickly turn a fight and keep fighters honest for sure. The last few years he has clearly diminished and Robert Stieglitz put an effective punctuation mark at the end of this fight. He tore into Abraham from the get go, and my thinking was that eventually Abraham would catch him and end the fight. However, he never seemed to have the ability to hurt Stieglitz, or even deter him in the slightest.
In the second round Abraham tried to get Stieglitz off of him by fighting back, which he was forced to do with Stieglitz pressure. It did not seem to matter, Stieglitz was a man on a mission and would not be denied. He even shocked me by seriously hurting Abraham at the end of the second stanza and he clearly had no intention in engaging Stieglitz at that point as he was only interested in holding.
It was more of the same in the third round, this time Abraham had a badly swollen eye. Having little to no chance in winning the fight, the referee correctly called an end to the bout. It is hard to see where Abraham goes from here, he has struggled the last few years and if he couldn't punch, he would have lost many more fights, in my opinion. Stieglitz, however, looked amazing and seems to have many options on the table after a performance like that.
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