Former middleweight champion, Berlin-based Armenian boxer Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KOs) will make his hotly anticipated comeback on Jan. 14, 2012, in the Germany city of Offenburg at the Baden-Arena. His opponent will be 23-year-old Argentine boxer Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias, states Abraham’s press spokesperson Siran Grigoryan.<\/p>\n
It will be Abraham’s first fight since losing to WBA SuperMiddleweight Champion Andre Ward in the semi-finals of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to put on a good fight for my fans,\u201d King Arthur said. \u201cOf course I have learned from my defeats. But now is the time to look ahead and get ready to fight again. I want to win back the hearts of my fans, and in order to do so, I need a convincing victory. Jan. 14 will be the start of something new for me. I want to begin the new year with an exciting victory and then set my sights on a world title again,\u201d he said, reports East Side Boxing<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Farias (19-1, 11 KOs)\u00a0 has never been beaten by knockout or decision. His only loss was a disqualification when he punched after the \u201cbreak\u201d command. \u201cWe have analyzed him on tape,\u201d coach Ulli Wegner said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe’s a tough guy with a lot of fighting spirit. He will be difficult to beat. But Arthur knows that he needs to put on a convincing performance. It will be an interesting encounter.\u201d<\/p>\n The fight will be contested above the middleweight limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former middleweight champion, Berlin-based Armenian boxer Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KOs) will make his hotly anticipated comeback on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18223,14203,35537,35536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}