"King" Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26) may have failed to live up to his promise in the Super 6 Boxing Classic tournament though he now begins his rebuilding process as he takes on Argentinian Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias (19-1, 11). This fight will be aired on ARD in Germany and is also expected to be aired on BoxNation in the UK is one of the bouts on Baden-Arena card that also features Robert Stieglitz's WBO Super Middleweight title defence against Henry Weber.
Boxing fans the world around know about Arthur Abraham. The former IBF Middleweight champion is a very respectable puncher who has genuinely devastating power in his shots and may well have been the hardest hitting fighter pound for pound on the planet over the past few years. He was, prior to going into the Super 6 an unbeaten fighter with a record of 30-0 (24 KO's) though we found out during the tournament that he wasn't suited to facing bigger men who could often use their reach to keep him out of harms way and off balance. However we don't really know that much about his Argentinian opponent who despite boasting a "respectful" record hasn't beaten anyone of note in in his 20 bouts. In fact unless you avidly follow the Argentinian boxing scene you'll have never seen Farias in your life, so here is a low down on the man known as "Pokémon":
Born in Junín, Buenos Aires the 24 year old is a fighter who has fought mostly between Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight. He has fought professionally since 2008 when he out pointed the then unbeaten Dario German Balmaceda. Despite fighting around Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight he's actually a very short man stocky fighter who is maybe 5'8" and seemed to be giving away noticeable height to his last opponent Jose Clavero (who is around 5'10" himself).
In his fight with Clavero (who was a former world title challenger) Farias was dropped in the opening round and made to look very poor as he often swung wildly opening himself to counters from his experienced opponent. As well as looking wild and wide he also appeared worryingly slow and defensively naive against the 36 year old Clavero (who is now a days little more than a journeyman) who simply seemed to walk him down. Oddly in that fight Farias suffered his first loss as he landed his best shot after the referee called break and knocked out Clavero with a foul, resulting in a disqualification loss against his name. Rather ironically both Farias and Abraham suffered their first losses by DQ for cheap shots.
Whilst Farias might be technically "the bigger man" in the fact he has fought at a higher weight he certainly won't look like a much bigger man against the heavily built Abraham who is genuinely a thickly set fighter. For Clavero he needs to really fear the power of Abraham who will hit significantly harder than anyone he has ever faced. For Abraham however he has little to worry about in terms of his rival, his biggest worries may be mental scars from losing 3 of his last 4.
Although Abraham is far from perfect with a very lazy style he is also very talented, very defensively cute and as mentioned very hard hitting. If Farias is going to fight as openly as he did against Clavero I have no doubt this fight finishes when ever Abraham wants it to. If I'm in Abraham's boots I will allow the fight to go a few rounds, try and get some confidence back before finishing the fight whenever I wish. So this brings us to my bets, Abraham by TKO/KO/DQ is 3/10 (Ladbrokes) is what I would view as free money personally if it wasn't for what I have also seen (see the below). I'd perhaps wait a few days and see if anyone else opens up this market and try and pounce on whatever is on offer. Although I feel Abraham could finish the bout when he wants, I do feel it will be after a few rounds, so I'll also be putting a sneaky bet on Abraham 5-8 at odds of around 9/4 (again with Ladbrokes). Sadly the odds on the outright market are untouchable with Abraham being around 1/20 though it's nice to see that there is some money to be made on the stoppage.
Now I said I'd seen something better than free money, and it's the incredibly nice 1/2 Ladbrokes are offering on the fight to go LESS than 10.5 rounds. Farias has only gone 10 rounds on 3 occasions in his whilst Abraham has only been taken that far by genuinely tough opponents. If you want a banker this is it!
Bets-
Outright-Avoid (Odds are untouchable)
Others-Abraham by TKO/KO/DQ 1/3 (Ladbrokes), Abraham rounds 5-8 9/4 (Ladbrokes), fight to go less than 10.5 rounds 1/2 (Ladbrokes)
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