Stieglitz vs Miranda: it´s official: WBO supermiddle champ Robert Stieglitz defends the title January 9 at the Boerdeland Hall in Magdeburg, Germany, against Edison Miranda. It´s a tought first defence for Robert and an exciting matchup between two fighters who promised a lot early on, came close but failed at the highest level – even if Stieglitz beat Karoly Balzsay to win a world title he still lost first to Alejandro Berrio in an attempt to win the IBF title and got stopped by Librado Andrade in a IBF eliminator. Miranda got partly robbed, partly blew it himself in the first fight against Arthur Abraham and it´s been downhill since until recently when he relocated to California to be trained by Joe Goossen. He´s co-promoted by Goossen Tutor and Warriors.
The show in Magdeburg is a co-promotion between SES and Universum with the main bouts televised by ZDF.
In the co-feature female feather Ina Menzer defends her three world titles against Ramona Kuehne.
For SES it means they have three fighters in world title fights inside a month: December 11 Jan Zaveck challenge IBF welter champ Isaac Hlatswayo in Johannesburg. Dec 19 in Ekaterinburg Natascha Ragosina fights for the WIBF heavyweight title and then Stieglitz-Miranda January 9.
Kessler – Ward: Not that it matters but the WBA and California commission made a mistake in the scoring of Ward vs Kessler: the eleventh should had been scored as well. And it´s mistake they aware of and it´s up to the CA commission to correct it but this far it hasn´t happend.
Andre Ward´s status should according to a WBA official be that of a WBA “superchamp” with Dimitri Sartison as WBA “regular” champ.
In regards of Kessler the commission reports reads: “Doc has to ok both eyes and right cheek or suspended 60 days”. Kessler may fight Carl Froch March 6.
26.11 Stieglitz vs Miranda on!
