Boxer Abraham Arthur: biography, photo, sports career

The countries of the Caucasus are famous for boxers and fighters of world renown, you can not argue with this fact. The biography of the famous boxer Arthur Abraham is proof. Abrahamyan Avetik Grigoryevich is his real name, and in sporting circles he is still known under 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 a titled IBF World Champion and WBA Intercontinental World Champion.

Passion for boxing

Biography of Arthur Abraham is very interesting and exciting. There is much to tell about this man. In his youth Arthur was engaged in cycling, and quite successfully - was a prize-winner of the championship of Armenia. A serious hobby for boxing came after the family moved to Germany, when Arthur was 15 years old. As his family recalls, seeing Mike Tyson fight on TV, Avetik wanted to become like him and went to the sports section of boxing himself.

In the late 90s, the athlete returned to Armenia for a while, where he was boxing with the coaches Armen Hovhannisyan and Derenik Voskanyan. In the period from 1999 to 2003, Arthur won the title of Armenian champion three times 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 get a higher education in the specialty "lawyer".

Professional career in the middleweight

In 2003, Abraham made his professional debut in the battle against the German boxer Frank Kari Roth. The beginning turned out to be 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.

Having 12 successful fights over the shoulders, he fights for the intercontinental championship title with Australian Nader Hamdan and wins by sending the opponent into a knockout in the 12th round. This honorable title Abraham defends 3 more times.

World champion

In 2005, boxer Arthur Abraham became the world champion among middleweight professionals, fighting Nigerian Kingsley Ikeke and sending him to a deep knockout.

In 2006, the athlete still defends his title twice in the ring in battles with Shennan Taylor from Australia and Kofi Yantua from Ghana.

Protection of the belt in a duel with Edison Miranda

In September 2006, Abraham Arthur defends the champion's belt for the third time in the fight against Edison Miranda. In the 4th round, the boxer almost knocked out an opponent, but failed to pass a counter strike, which led to a double fracture of the jaw. The fight was stopped, but the disqualification of the opponent did not happen. Refusal to continue the fight would mean a defeat for Abraham, so he made a difficult decision to continue the fight. Arthur won the victory, which he got very hard - he was operated on and returned to the ring only after 3 months.

For the fourth time Avetik defended his champion belt in a fight against Canadian boxer Sebastian Demers. He, in turn, has already spent 20 successful fights by this time and took 27th place in the world rating. In the third round Abraham sends Demers in a deep knockdown, and then the referee decided to intervene and stopped the fight, the champion's victory was recorded by technical knockout.

The second meeting with the Colombian Miranda

In June 2008, Arthur Abraham again meets 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 from the outcome of this fight did not depend on any titles.

In 2009, Abraham again defends the belt in a duel against Lajuan Simon, who had not had a single defeat before.

His 10th defense of the championship title Abraham held against Mahir Oral - a German of Turkish origin. The battle was intense, the opponent well kept the defense, although often found himself on the floor. And at the beginning of the 10th round Mahir Oral surrendered.

2-nd average weight in the boxing tournament Super Six

Abraham was the world champion for almost 4 years, but without waiting for the desired fight for uniting all the belts in middleweight champions among the champions of other boxing organizations, in 2009 he refused the championship belt and moved to the 2nd middleweight. This allowed him to participate in the Super Six World Boxing Classic - a prestigious tournament that gave the opportunity to win the championship belt in 2 of the main 4 boxing organizations.

This tournament began for Abraham with a fight with American Jermain Taylor, who by that time had many victories. The rivalry ended in a deep knockdown of the opponent. Abraham Arthur is the only leader of the prestigious tournament.

2nd fight - again with American athlete Andre Dirrell. The initiative was then on the side of Arthur, then on the side of his opponent. In the 11th round Arthur hit on the head of the opponent, who dropped to his knee, after which he was disqualified. The victory was awarded to Dirrell, which caused a contradictory reaction in the world of boxing.

The third fight of the tournament, on whose outcome the belt of the WBC champion depended, was held in November 2010 in Helsinki. The rival was the British Carl Froch. He was superior to Abraham by his height and had an advantage throughout the whole battle. As a result, the fight ended with a clear victory for Karl Froch on points.

Despite previous defeats, Abraham Arthur is in the semifinals of the tournament, where his opponent is Andre Ward, the current titled champion. Confrontation ends with Arthur's defeat.

Confrontation with Robert Stieglitz

Despite the setbacks in the Super Six, the boxer wins several successful victories for his sports career and thanks to him becomes a contender for the honorary title of WBO champion. His opponent was the current champion Robert Stieglitz. This meeting aroused great interest among sports circles and ended with the unanimous victory of Abraham, although both rivals were very active in the ring.

The boxers meet three times in the ring. In the second match, Stieglitz returns the title of champion by TKO. The third duel between the opponents took place in March 2014 in McDebour, where Arthur Abraham scored the most important victory in his words.

Interesting from the life of a boxer

Knockouts of Arthur Abraham and his belt - this is not all the achievements of the boxer. About him, you can tell a lot more interesting things:

• Arthur Abraham was awarded the title "Boxer of the Year" in Germany three times (2006, 2009, 2012).
• He was awarded the medals of the Armenian Armed Forces in 2007 and "For Services to the Fatherland" in 2011.
• In addition to professional boxing career Arthur works as a commentator on the famous German television channel ARD.
• Alexander, the younger brother of an athlete, is also a professional boxer.
• Arthur can be seen on the screen in the artistic film "Max Schmeling", where he plays boxer Richard Vogt.
• The boxer took under his care the toddler of a Persian leopard named Shiva, a tablet with an inscription about it installed on a leopard enclosure in the Berlin zoo.

Here is such an interesting personality in the world of professional boxing. For this person always on the first place is boxing. Arthur Abraham always says: "I do not like weak opponents, I like strong ones, I box for the belt, not for the money." Well, these words have nothing to add, it remains only to wish Arthur luck in the ring.