The countries of the Caucasus are famous for boxers and world-famous fighters, you cannot argue with this fact. The biography of the famous boxer Arthur Abraham is proof of this. Abrahamyan Avetik Grigoryevich is his real name, and in sports circles he is also known by the nickname King Arthur.
Abraham Arthur was born in Yerevan on February 20, 1980. Armenian and German (since he became a German citizen since 2006), the famous boxer is the titled IBF world champion and the WBA intercontinental world champion.
Passion for boxing
The biography of Arthur Abraham is very interesting and exciting. There is something to tell about this person. In his youth, Arthur was engaged in cycling, and quite successfully - he was a winner of the Armenian championship. A serious passion for boxing came after the family moved to Germany, when Arthur was 15 years old. As his family recalls, after seeing Mike Tyson’s fight on TV, Avetik wanted to become like him and went to the boxing sports section himself.
In the late 90s, the athlete returned for some time to Armenia, where he was engaged in boxing with coaches Armen Hovhannisyan and Derenik Voskanyan. In the period from 1999 to 2003, Arthur 3 times won the title of champion of Armenia among amateurs, but did not speak at the international level. At the same time, he served in the ranks of the Armenian army and managed to graduate with a degree in law.
Professional career in middleweight
In 2003, Abraham made his debut in the professional ring in the battle against German boxer Frank Kari Roth. The beginning was successful - Arthur won the victory. From that moment on, the world began to learn about such a talented and strong boxer as Arthur Abraham. Photos of this athlete increasingly began to appear on the pages of newspapers and magazines.
With 12 successful fights behind him, he fights for the intercontinental championship title with Australian Nader Hamdan and wins by sending the opponent knocked out in the 12th round. This honorable title Abraham protects 3 more times.
World champion
In 2005, boxer Arthur Abraham became the world champion among middleweight professionals by battling Nigerian Kingsley Ikeke and sending him to a deep knockout.
In 2006, the athlete twice defended his title in the ring in the battles with Shannan Taylor from Australia and Kofi Yantua from Ghana.
Belt protection in a duel with Edison Miranda
In September 2006, Abraham Arthur defended his champion belt for the third time against Edison Miranda. In the 4th round, the boxer almost knocked out the opponent, but unsuccessfully missed a counter strike, which led to a double fracture of the jaw. The fight was stopped, but the opponent was not disqualified. Failure to continue the fight would mean defeat for Abraham, so he made a difficult decision to continue the fight. Arthur won the victory, which went to him very hard - he was operated on and returned to the ring only after 3 months.
For the fourth time, Avetik defended his championship belt in a fight against Canadian boxer Sebastian Demers. He, in turn, by this time had already conducted 20 successful battles and took the 27th place in the global ranking. In the third round, Abraham sent Demers to a deep knockdown, and then the referee decided to intervene and stopped the fight, the champion's victory was recorded by technical knockout.
Second meeting with Colombian Miranda
In June 2008, Arthur Abraham met again in the ring with Edison Miranda. The fight was stopped without opening an account after the Colombian lay on the floor for more than a minute during the 3rd fall. But no titles depended on the outcome of this fight.
In 2009, Abraham again defended the belt in a duel against Lahuan Simon, who had not had a single defeat before.
Abraham held his 10th defense of the championship against Mahir Oral, a German of Turkish origin. The fight was intense, the opponent held the defense well, although he often found himself on the floor. And at the beginning of the 10th round, Mahir Oral surrendered.
2nd Middleweight Super Six Boxing Tournament
Abraham was the world champion for almost 4 years, but never having received the desired fight for the unification of all middleweight belts among champions of other boxing organizations, in 2009 he abandoned the championship belt and moved to the 2nd middle weight. This allowed him to participate in the Super Six World Boxing Classic - a prestigious tournament that made it possible to win the championship belt in 2 of the 4 main boxing organizations.
This tournament began for Abraham by a fight with the American Jermain Taylor, who by that time had many victories. The rivalry ended with a deep knockdown of the enemy. Abraham Arthur is the only leader in a prestigious tournament.
2nd battle - again with the American athlete Andre Dirrell. The initiative was now on the side of Arthur, then on the side of his opponent. In the 11th round, Arthur hit the opponent’s head, kneeling down, after which he was disqualified. The victory was awarded to Dirrell, which caused a controversial reaction in the boxing world.
The third battle of the tournament, on the outcome of which the belt of the champion according to the WBC version depended, took place in November 2010 in Helsinki. The rival was Briton Carl Froch. He surpassed Abraham in growth and throughout the battle had an advantage. As a result, the match ended with a clear victory for Carl Froch on points.
Despite the previous defeats, Abraham Arthur ends up in the semifinals of the tournament, where Andre Ward, the current titled champion, is his opponent. The confrontation ends with the defeat of Arthur.
Confrontation with Robert Stieglitz
Despite the failures in Super Six, the boxer wins several victories for his sports career and thanks to them he becomes a contender for the honorary title of WBO champion. His rival was the current champion Robert Stieglitz. This meeting aroused great interest in sports circles and ended in a unanimous victory for Abraham, although both rivals were very active in the ring.
Boxers meet three more times in the ring. In the 2nd match, Stieglitz returns the title by technical knockout of the opponent. The third fight between the opponents took place in March 2014 in Macdeburg, where Arthur Abraham won the most important victory in his words.
