Abraham-Oral. Discussion and R-B-R.

[BattlingNelson]

Tonight in Berlin's Max Schmeling Halle undefeated Arthur Abraham makes the 10'th defense of his IBF middleweight title against unheralded Mahir Oral fighting out of Hamburg.

The arena will be filled to a capacity 9,000 and millions will be watching live on ARD.

There will be livestreaming of the fight here:

http://www3.mdr.de/sportschau-live/

but it will possibly be blocked outside Germany.

http://www.justin.tv/teledudem

http://www.justin.tv/boxeotv

[BattlingNelson]

Before the fight Oral says that he doesn't know the word fear. "I respect his power, but have no fear."

Oral is nicknamed 'löwe' meaning lion because of his big heart. He aims to be busy right from the start and secure a points lead.

[BattlingNelson]

Abraham will enter in usual flashy style to scottish rockband Simple Minds.

Abraham's key to victory will be "the left hook to the liver" which according to Sauerland-man Hagen Döring is "unbelievable painful and will end the fight."

Oral is expected to fight a bit like Graziano Rocchigiani with a high guard.

As a bonusinfo I can add that tonight Rocchigiani will be in the corner of undercardfighter Herbie Hide.

[BattlingNelson]

German media today reiterates that this will be Abrahams last defense. Sunday he will be a supermiddleweight.

Transmission starts at 22:25 CET

[BOOMbip]

German media today reiterates that this will be Abrahams last defense. Sunday he will be a supermiddleweight.

Transmission starts at 22:25 CET

what time it is that Eastern Standerd USA?

[Solntse]

German media today reiterates that this will be Abrahams last defense. Sunday he will be a supermiddleweight.

Transmission starts at 22:25 CET

Great! The SWM will be even more exciting with guys like KEssler, Froch, Bute, Abraham, Taylor, Andrade, etc...

[BattlingNelson]

Great! The SWM will be even more exciting with guys like KEssler, Froch, Bute, Abraham, Taylor, Andrade, etc...

Yeah. SMW will be stacked even more.

A shame that a Pavlik fight will be missed though.

Abraham has said earlier: "My management has been in touch with Top Rank for months and I’m confident we can get it done. A unification is what the whole boxing world wants to see. The Hopkins fight showed that Pavlik can be beaten, but that was nothing new to me.

“I would love to come to Pavlik’s hometown. I will fight him anywhere in the world. I have no problem coming to his backyard. In fact, I fought Miranda in Flordia. You know how it ended. I would fight Pavlik in his living room.

My main target is Pavlik. After I have beaten him I will fight the best boxers at super middleweight. Once I have unified the titles at middleweight I will move up and chase new titles there. It is really hard for me now because I have to lose a lot of weight ahead of each fight.”

It's a sin that we won't get to see the 2 best fighters fight for supremacy @ 160.

[BattlingNelson]

Abraham is normally known for a granite chin, but showed weakness last time out against philly fighter Lajuan Simon. Simon rocked AA noticeably with a left hook. Can the unheralded Oral do the same?

[rizkybizness]

abraham got rocked in his last fight?

wow, i guess he has been having big trouble making weight

[WelshDevilRob]

The ARD stream normally works in the UK and is always a superb quality stream.

With Setanta no longer having the UK rights to Abrahams fights then I'm sure it will work fine.