News - Arthur Abraham

"I can hardly wait to finally fight again," said IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (22-0, 17 KOs) at a public workout today at the ERTL-Einkaufszetrum in Bamberg, Germany. Abraham's fight against unbeaten Sebastien Demers (20-0, 9 KOs) on Saturday at Jako Arena in Bamberg will be his first since his epic September 23rd win over Edison Miranda, a bout where his jaw was broken in two places read more ...

IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham says he will return to the ring in April to make a voluntary defense, then is happy to hand mandatory challenger Edison Miranda another beating in June. "I can´t believe you still want to fight me, Eddie," Abraham stated. read more ...

One week after his twelve-round war with Edison Miranda, IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham has checked out of the Protestant Jungstilling Hospital in Siegen. “I've recovered from the operation and I feel good,” the champion said to the journalists. “Having the belt on me is the most important thing of course. I fought hard to defend it.” read more ...

four-and-a-half minute timeout was called with :54 left in the round after an intentional head butt by Miranda behind the ear of Abraham. During the time given to Abraham to recover from the foul, the ring doctor came to the ropes to examine him. The Doctor was concerned with the blood coming from Abraham's mouth, examining him for about two minutes, before indicating to referee Randy Neumann that the fight should be stopped read more ...

“I first want to say that I enjoyed my time in Germany. The people were very nice to me,” said Miranda. “The day after the fight the people in Germany recognized me. They came up to me and said that I deserved to win that fight. They felt bad that I came to Germany and was treated like that and I should be the Champion.” read more ...

The first interview with IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham has been released. Abraham, who says there are two titanium sheets in his double fractured jaw, is recovering from his brutal fight against Edison Miranda at the Evengelischen Hospital in Siegen. For the first time he talks about the fight, his opponent and the criticism of his trainer Ulli Wegner read more ...

IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham will have to spend three or four days Evangelischen Hospital in Wetzlar, Germany after surgeons successfully repaired his broken jaw suffered Saturday in his win over Edison Miranda. Although speech was difficult, the champ was able to say, "If the jawbreak hadn't happened, I would have defeated Miranda in the sixth round....I immediately noticed that he is there to be hit." Abraham will certainly read more ...

Edison Miranda arrived late for today's weigh-in ceremony at the Mercure Mercure Hotel Congress in Wetzlar, so Arthur Abraham weighed in first. The champion weighed in at 159.8. Later, when Miranda stepped on the scales his weight was 160.3. He was given two hours to shed the excess weight. He later came back and on the second try weighed 159.8, within the middleweight limit read more ...

When IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham enters the ring on September 23 in Wetzlar, Germany against mandatory challenger Edison Miranda, he will do so for the first time as a German citizen. The Armenian-born world champion has received his citizenship in Berlin after successfully passing a linguistic test. Abraham has lived in Germany since the beginning of 2004. The 26-year-old champion promoted by Sauerland Event read more ...

The IBF middleweight championship fight between Edison ‘Pantera’ Miranda and Arthur Abraham was canceled by Abraham due to flu-like symptoms. It was originally scheduled for this Saturday, August 26th in Oldenburg, Germany. Sometime on Monday, during training, Miranda’s team learned that Abraham was bowing out of the fight. Pantera claims he was in prime shape and ready to knock out Abraham. After learning of the cancelled fight read more ...