WBA super middleweight champ Giovanni De Carolis, 24-6-1,-(12) retained his title by the skin of his teeth with a12 round majority draw against Tyron Zeuge, 18-0-1-(10) ,at the Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin, Germany on Saturday.
It was hard to separate the two in the first half of the fight but De Carolis looked to have edged ahead after the halfway mark, and put in an extra push in the 11th . Zeuge injured his left shoulder at the end of 10th round.. The score were 114-114, 115-114 (Zeuge) 115-115.
On the undercard former IBF middleweight and WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham returned with a win after losing his WBO title by scoring an eighth round tko win over Norwegian fighter Tim-Robin Lihaug .
Abraham wobbled Lihaug in rounds five and seven before decking Lihaug in round eight Lihaug survived but the fight was stopped after 1:09. Abraham won the vacant WBO International title.
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July 16, 2016