Stieglitz easily beats contender Weber

In a one-sided fight, WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz easily defeated previously unbeaten #14 World Boxing Organization ranked contender Henry Weber by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision.

WBO Champion Robert Stieglitz

Stieglitz cruised to victory with scores of 119-109 (Jose Roberto Torres), 118-110 (Ingo Barrabas) and 116-112 (Zoltan Enyedi). Referee was Andre Van Grootenbruel.
For Stieglitz, it was his fifth title defense of his WBO and his last before he faces former two-time super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler on April 14th in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stieglitz appeared to win every round of the fight while Weber, overwhelmed in every round,  could do little in this fight.
Weber lost his mouthpiece repeatedly in the fight, often when he would get hit with big uppercuts.
Stieglitz raised his record to 41-2-0 (23), while Weber, EBU # 13, wrote his first loss after 15 wins (3 KOs) and 1 draw.

In his first bout following his disastrous Super Six tournament performance, former world champion Arthur Abraham, 33-3-0 (26 KOs) scored a fifth round TKO over Argentine Pablo Farias, 19-2-0 (11 KOs).
After a slow four rounds, Armenian-German Abraham opened up in the fifth and dropped Farias three times to end it and acquired the vacant WBO European super-middleweight.

Unbeaten Bulgarian heavyweight Kubrat Pulev, 15-0-0 (7 KOs) scored a nine round TKO over British Michael Sprott, 36-18-0 (17 KOs), who didn’t come out for round ten.
Pulev retained his IBF International heavyweight title.

WBO/WBFed/WIBF female super-featherweight champion Ramona Kuehne, 19-1-0 (6 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO over Hungarian Renata Domsodi, 7-2-0 (3 KOs). German Kuehne dropped Domsodi twice in the eighth and it was waved off at 1:24.

Unbeaten light heavyweight Geman Dustin Dirks, 23-0-0 (17 KOs) scored a technical knockout over British Sam Couzens, 7-7-0 (2 KOs) at 1:26 of the fourth round.

Unbeaten middleweight Spanish-Austrian Marcos Nader moved to 14-0-0 (2 KOs) after outpointing Uganda’s Farouk Daku, 13-4-0 (7 KOs) over eight.

Saturday 14 January 2012
Baden-Arena, Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
commission: Austrian Boxing Federation; inspector: Willibald Palatin
promoters:
Wilfried Sauerland (Sauerland Event) and Ulf Steinforth (Sport Events Steinforth)
matchmakers: Hagen Doering and Taouab Mohamed Hedi
 

Stieglitz forced to go 12 rounds

Robert Stieglitz retained his WBO super-middleweight title when he beat Henry Weber on Saturday night.

The champion won the bout in Offenburg, Germany, on points over 12 rounds: 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109.

Stieglitz dominated the bout against his German countryman but Weber stood his ground, even though he took too much punishment to threaten the champion.

Stieglitz improved his professional record to to 41-2. Weber dropped to 15-1, with one draw.

Robert Stieglitz © Gallo Images

Stieglitz, 30, was making the fifth defence of the title. He won the WBO belt in August 2009 when he stopped Karoly Balzsay in the eleventh round.

He has also made successful defences against Ruben Eduardo Acosta (tko 5), Eduard Gutknecht and Enrique Ornelas (both on points over 12 rounds) and Khoren Gevor, on a disqualification in the final round.

On the same card, former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham knocked out Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias in the fifth round to win the WBO European super middleweight title.

Abraham improved his record to 33-3, with 26 knockouts and Farias, who was knocked down three times, now stands at 19-2; 11.

Heavyweight Kubrat Pulev beat veteran Michael Sprott in the ninth round to retain the IBF International title. Puley improved to 15-0; 7 and Sprott, who did not come out for the ninth, dropped to 36-18; 17.

Light-heavyweight Dustin Dirks (23-0; 17) stopped Sam Couzens (7-7; 2) in the fourth round and middleweight Marcos Nader (14-0; 2) outpointed Farouk Daku (13-4; 7) over eight rounds.

OTHER WEEKEND RESULTS

Bethnal Green, London: Shane McPhilbin won the British cruiserweight title when he stopped Leon Williams in the 12th round at the York Hall.

Williams (9-3; 4) was well ahead at the start of the final round when he was knocked down by a right hook. The dazed champion beat the count but went down again. He again beat the count but the referee stopped the fight when Williams failed to fight back.

On the same card, heavyweight Sam Sexton won on a fifth-round technical decision against Larry Oluwamibo.

A clash of heads in the fourth round left Oluwamibo with a bad cut on the side of his head and he was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the fight.

Elizabeth, Indiana: Heavyweight Curt Allan (8-1-1; 3) beat Eric “Butterbean” Esch (77-9-4; 58) on points over four rounds in a return match. Esch is known as the “king of four-rounders”.

Las Vegas: Super-bantamweight Chris Martin (23-1-3; 6) and Teon Kennedy (17-1-2; 7) fought to a ten-round majority draw. The scores were 95-95 on two cards and 97-93 for Kennedy.

Source:  www.supersport.com/boxing/international/news/120111/Stieglitz_forced_to_go_12_rounds