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    Duluth News Tribune, MN
    May 14 2006

    Armenian keeps IBF title

    ZWICKAU, Germany - Armenia's Arthur Abraham retained the IBF
    middleweight title Saturday in a rousing 12-round brawl with Kofi
    Jantuah.

    On the same card, Germany's Markus Beyer retained the WBC super
    middleweight title against Australian Sakio Bika when a head butt
    stopped the fight.

    The fight was ruled a technical draw after Bika's fourth round head
    butt opened a cut under the German's right eye and it swelled shut.

    About 4,000 spectators gave Abraham, 21-0 with 17 knockouts, a
    standing ovation after the action-filled fight. He was awarded a
    115-112, 116-111, 117-109 decision against Jantuah, who lives in Las
    Vegas.

    Jantuah (30-3, 19 knockouts) was staggered numerous times from the
    fifth round on and looked as if he was going down in the 11th when
    Abraham buckled his knees with a left, but never stopped pressing the
    fight.

    Abraham kept trying to knock him out, even in the 12th, when he had a
    big lead to protect.

    Bika rattled Beyer with a short left uppercut, then chased him around
    the ring. The German tagged him with some hard lefts beforehand and
    recovered to put him into the ropes just before the bell.

    Beyer entered the fight 34-2 with 13 knockouts, while Bika was 20-1
    with 13 knockouts.

    - In Sheffield, England, Clinton Woods stopped Jason DeLisle in the
    sixth round to retain his IBF light-heavyweight title in his second
    defense.
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