Robert Goldfinch

Robert Goldfinch
Data
Birth Name	Sergei Goldfinch
Weight class	Super middleweight light heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	June 20, 1981
place of birth	Jeisk
style	Left delivery
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	57
Victories	50
Knockout victories	29
Defeats	5
draw	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Robert Stieglitz (born June 20, 1981 in Yeisk , Soviet Union , today Russia , as Sergei Stieglitz ) is a former German boxer. He was WBO super middleweight champion from 2009 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2014 .

Professional career

IBF career

After the separation of his parents who moved Russia German Stieglitz to his uncle in Magdeburg in order for the German team champion 1. BC Magdeburg to box. Stieglitz is since February 2001 at SES -Boxstall under contract. He made his professional debut in April 2001. In October 2002 he won the vacant junior title of the IBF in the light heavyweight division. After defending his title three times, he switched to the super middleweight division in 2004 and won the junior title here as well, and in April 2005 the IBF “Intercontinental” title. Stieglitz was on the ground for the first time in his professional career against Djamel Selini; but he won this fight unanimously on points.

Due to the smaller and insignificant title wins in the IBF Association, he was able to work his way up in the IBF world rankings despite the lack of victories against well-known opponents and was won on December 3, 2005 by an early victory over the hard-hitting, but unknown Colombian Alejandro Berrio , the also had only three weeks of preparation for this encounter, in an elimination match mandatory challenger of WBO and IBF title holder Joe Calzaghe . His other opponents were never at the front in independent rankings,

After Calzaghe refused to complete his mandatory defense against Stieglitz in order to claim more lucrative fights in the US, the IBF title became vacant. Sauerland Event auctioned the rights to host the fight for $ 614,444 in January 2007, compared to a bid of $ 612,806 through Universum Box Promotion and SES - a difference of only $ 1,638 . Stieglitz then boxed on March 3, 2007 in Rostock at a Sauerland event for the belt of the IBF world association in the super middleweight division again against his old rival Alejandro Berrio and lost after two knock-downs in the third round by technical knockout

After the defeat against Berrio, Stieglitz's long-time coach Werner Kirsch was dismissed by SES and his new coach was Torsten Schmitz . This was followed by two victories in development matches before Stieglitz was nominated for an elimination match against the Mexican Librado Andrade for a world championship match of the IBF Association. This meeting took place on March 22nd, 2008 in the USA ; Stieglitz lost to a technical knockout in the eighth round. In December 2008 he managed to win a point against the previously undefeated Lukas Wilaschek .

WBO career

After two more victories, Stieglitz received his second World Cup chance on August 22, 2009; he competed in Budapest against the Hungarian WBO world champion Károly Balzsay and won the title by technical knockout in the eleventh round, since the exhausted Balzsay no longer appeared in the twelfth round. After Max Schmeling , Ralf Rocchigiani and Markus Beyer, Stieglitz was only the fourth German to become world champion abroad. Stieglitz defended the WBO title for the first time on January 9, 2010 in Magdeburg against Ruben Acosta. The Argentine stood in at short notice for the Colombian Edison Miranda , who had canceled two weeks before the fight due to a flu illness. Stieglitz won by technical knockout in the fifth round.

Stieglitz completed his first compulsory defense of the WBO title on April 17, 2010 against the hitherto undefeated Eduard Gutknecht by winning the points. On November 20, there was then a fight against Enrique Ornelas, which he also won on points. His next opponent should be the reigning “regular” WBA title holder Dimitri Sartison on April 9, 2011 . However, since Sartison was seriously injured in training 1.5 weeks before the match and had to cancel, the Armenian Khoren Gevor was hired as a substitute opponent at short notice . After Gevor was noticed by improper actions during the fight and had already been warned, both boxers went to the ground in the tenth round after a headbutt during the subsequent clamps. Stieglitz pulled a laceration over his right eye. Gevor was then disqualified by referee Manfred Küchler, whereupon Gevor caused a scandal, attacked Küchler and had to be led out of the hall by officials and supervisors.

Stieglitz was supposed to box against former WBA and WBC world champion Mikkel Kessler on November 5, 2011 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen . The fight was initially postponed to April 14, 2012 due to a hand injury by Kessler. Instead, Stieglitz successfully defended his title on January 15, 2012 against the previously undefeated Henry Weber. On March 12, 2012, the second date for the Kesslerkampf was canceled. A fight against the British George Groves was also canceled. On May 5, 2012, he defended his title on points against the Australian Nader Hamdan.

On August 25, 2012, he lost to Arthur Abraham on points in Berlin and thus lost his WBO world champion belt after three years. He won the previously contractually agreed rematch on March 23, 2013 in Magdeburg by breaking off after three rounds due to a swollen eye of Abraham and thus became WBO world champion again. Stieglitz had won all three rounds before.

On July 13, 2013 Stieglitz successfully defended his WBO title in the EnergieVerbund Arena in Dresden against the Japanese Yūzō Kiyota through TKO in the 10th round. The fight had been stopped because of a cut over Kiyota's left eye. Since it was suspected that an accidental headbutt was responsible for the injury, the ballots on which Stieglitz had a clear lead were counted. Later, however, the judgment was converted into a technical knockout victory. For the 29-year-old Japanese it was the 28th professional fight, the first on European soil and his fourth defeat.

On March 2, 2014, Robert Stieglitz lost in the third fight against Arthur Abraham by majority decision (1: 2). On November 8, 2014, he boxed in the Stuttgart Porsche Arena with an agreed catchweight of 75.5 kilograms (between middle and super middleweight) against Felix Sturm and reached a draw. On July 18, 2015, he lost again to Abraham, this time prematurely in the sixth round.

EBU career

On November 12, 2016, Stieglitz won the EBU light heavyweight title in the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg against the Frenchman Mehdi Amar unanimously on points. A little later, on March 18, 2017, he was able to defend his European championship title against the Montenegrin Nikola Sjekloća in the Arena Leipzig , but this time only by a draw after a majority decision (2: 1).

End of career

After his two European Championship fights, Stieglitz was asked several times whether he would continue his career. He then asked for time and patience to be able to make a decision in peace. At the instruction of the EBU, a duel between Stieglitz and his SES colleague and the EBU's mandatory challenger, Dominic Bösel , was announced. On May 23, 2017, Stieglitz announced that he would end his career with immediate effect. The reason he cited was that his body was no longer doing the way he wanted it to. Although he feels physically fit, he has a few "construction sites" such as B. his hand, which had to be operated on several times, and a shoulder injury that has not yet fully healed, which led him to decide to end his career. He did not rule out a career as a coach.

Private

Between his fights as a boxer, Stieglitz earned his diploma as a physical education teacher at Yeisk University through a three-year distance learning course. He lives in Magdeburg. He has a son with his divorced wife and a daughter with his current partner.

Others

In March 2018, Robert Stieglitz founded the Stieglitz Boxing Akademie e. Together with Andrej Sviridov and Bastian Kirchner in Hohenwarsleben . V. founded. The focus is on getting children and young people into boxing and participating in Olympic boxing championships with them over the next few years. There were first successes at the state championships of Saxony-Anhalt in 2018, when two titles for men and five for students went to the Stieglitz Boxing Academy.

successes

• Professional balance: 50 wins - 5 losses - 2 draws

• October 31, 2002: IBF junior world champion light heavyweight (3 title defenses)
• February 21, 2004: IBF junior world champion in super middleweight division
• June 5, 2004: Intercontinental Super Middleweight Champion of the IBF (4 title defenses)
• December 9, 2008: WBC International Super Middleweight Champion
• August 22, 2009: WBO world champion in super middleweight division (6 title defenses)
• March 23, 2013: WBO World Champion in super middleweight division (2 title defenses)
• July 26, 2014: WBO intercontinental super middleweight champions
• November 12, 2016: EBU European Light Heavyweight Champion (1 title defense)

List of professional fights

year	Day	Opponent / target	place	Result	Type	Round
2001	7th of April	Petr Pokorný	Harzlandhalle, Ilsenburg (Harz)	victory	Points win (unanimous)	4/4
	April 22	Pavel Veprek	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	KO	1/4
	April 28	Karel Ferenc	House of the Guest, Eisenbach	victory	KO	2/4
	8th June	Tomáš Kugler	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	KO	4/4
	June 22	Ondřej Olah	Braunschweig State Theater , Braunschweig	victory	TKO	2/4
	7th of July	Patrick Madzinga	Maritim Hotelgesellschaft , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	2/4
	September 15th	Henry Mobio	Telde , Gran Canaria	victory	Point win	4/4
	December 8th	Roman Nicodem	Glass Palace, Dessau	victory	KO	3/6
2002	January 5th	Terrence Paliso	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	2/6
	February 23	László Dolgos	Centennial Hall , Neu-Isenburg	victory	TKO	3/4
	March 16	Bruce Özbek	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	6/6
	April 13th	László Dolgos	Harzlandhalle, Ilsenburg (Harz)	victory	TKO	3/6
	May 11th	Marius Mihai Dumitru	Circus Krone , Munich	victory	KO	2/6
	8th June	Pavel Cirok	Anhalt Arena , Dessau	victory	TKO	4/6
	21st September	Talal Santiago	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	3/8
	October 31	Sergei Karanevich vacant IBF World Youth Light Heavyweight Championship	Maritim Hotelgesellschaft , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
2003	1st March	Denis Solomko IBF light heavyweight youth title defense	Ballhaus -Arena, Aschersleben	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	April 25	Jenő Novák	Maritim Hotelgesellschaft , Magdeburg	victory	KO	4/8
	5th July	Roman Aramian IBF Light Heavyweight Youth Title Defense	Anhalt Arena , Dessau	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	September 20th	Juri Baraschian IBF light heavyweight youth title defense	Maritim Hotelgesellschaft , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	November 29th	Marcin Radola	Lausitz-Arena , Cottbus	victory	TKO	1/6
2004	21st of February	Galen Brown vacant IBF World Youth Light Heavyweight Championship	Ballhaus -Arena, Aschersleben	victory	TKO	7/12
	June 5th	Djamel Sellini vacant IBF Super Middleweight Intercontinental World Championship	Hermann-Gieseler-Halle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	September 18	Yuri Tsarenka IBF Super Middleweight Intercontinental Title Defense	Hermann-Gieseler-Halle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	11th December	Alexander Zaitsev IBF Super Middleweight Intercontinental Title Defense	Lausitz-Arena , Cottbus	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2005	21st of February	Lawrence Chapman IBF Super Middleweight Intercontinental Title Defense	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	task	11/12
	July 9	Francis Cheka IBF Super Middleweight Intercontinental Title Defense	Life Sportpark Herrenberg, Magdeburg	victory	TKO	5/12
	3rd of December	Alejandro Berrio	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	11/12
2006	October 10th	Eric Howard	T-Mobile Arena , Prague	victory	KO	5/8
2007	3 March	Alejandro Berrio vacant IBF World Super Middleweight Championship	Rostock city hall , Rostock	defeat	TKO	3/12
	2th of June	Marlon Hayes	Boardwalk Hall , Atlantic City, New Jersey	victory	Points win (unanimous)	8/8
	October 13th	William Gare	Hermann-Gieseler-Halle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
2008	March 22	Librado Andrade	Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon	defeat	TKO	8/12
	July 11th	Fawaz Nasir	Round gymnasium, Cuxhaven	victory	TKO	5/8
	9th of December	Lukas Wilaschek vacant WBC Super Middleweight International World Championship	Freizeit Arena, Sölden (Ötztal)	victory	Points victory (polyphonic)	12/12
2009	10. January	Dmitri Protkunas	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	4/8
	May 15	Jindřich Velecký	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	August 22nd	Károly Balzsay WBO World Super Middleweight Championship	SYMA Sport & Leisure Center, Budapest	victory	TKO	11/12
2010	January 9th	Rubén Eduardo Acosta WBO super middleweight title defense	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	5/12
	17th April	Eduard Gutknecht WBO super middleweight title defense	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	20th November	Enrique Ornela's WBO super middleweight title defense	Freiberg Arena , Dresden	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2011	9th April	Khoren Gevor WBO super middleweight title defense	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	victory	disqualification	10/12
2012	January 14th	Henry Weber WBO super middleweight title defense	Baden-Arena, Offenburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	5th of May	Nader Hamdan WBO super middleweight title defense	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	August 25	Arthur Abraham WBO Super Middleweight Title Defense	O2 World Berlin , Berlin	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	12/12
2013	January 26th	Michal Nieroda	Pabellón de Bon Pastor, Barcelona	victory	KO	3/8
	March 23	Arthur Abraham WBO World Super Middleweight Championship	GETEC Arena , Magdeburg	victory	TKO	4/12
	July 13th	Yūzō Kiyota WBO Super Middleweight Title Defense	EnergieVerbund Arena , Dresden	victory	TKO	10/12
	October 19th	Isaac Ekpo WBO super middleweight title defense	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2014	1st March	Arthur Abraham WBO Super Middleweight Title Defense	GETEC Arena , Magdeburg	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	12/12
	July 26th	Sergei Khomitsky vacant WBO super middleweight intercontinental world championship	Anhalt Arena , Dessau	victory	TKO	10/12
	November 8th	Felix Sturm	Porsche Arena , Stuttgart	draw	Polyphonic decision	12/12
2015	July 18th	Arthur Abraham WBO World Super Middleweight Championship	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	defeat	TKO	6/12
	October 17th	Robert Rosenberg	Hospudka Eden, Ústí nad Labem	victory	task	2/8
2016	5. March	Ricardo Marcelo Ramallo	Home Monitoring Aréna , Plzeň	victory	TKO	5/8
	November 12th	Mehdi Amar EBU European Light Heavyweight Championship	GETEC Arena , Magdeburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2017	March 18th	Nikola Sjekloća EBU light heavyweight title defense	Arena Leipzig , Leipzig	draw	Polyphonic decision	12/12

Web links

• Robert Stieglitz in the BoxRec database
• Robert Stieglitz at SES

literature

• Hartmut Scherzer: The unknown world champion. How Robert Stieglitz is built up against Arthur Abraham's opponent. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 5, 2012, No. 105, p. 29.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scherzer: The Unknown World Champion ; P. 29.
2. ↑ Boxing: Goldfinch fight against Kessler canceled again . sid article on Focus Online , March 12, 2012.
3. ↑ Super middleweight boxing: Goldfinch beats up Arthur Abraham . Spiegel Online , March 23, 2013, accessed March 24, 2013.
4. ↑ Stieglitz remains WBO world champion . Sport1 , July 13, 2013, accessed July 24, 2013
5. ↑ Stieglitz's victory against Kiyota is now a technical knockout . adrivo Sportpresse / Kasten.de, July 23, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2013.
6. ↑ Stieglitz ends career - Bösel against Murat for EBU title ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mdr.de, May 23, 2017. 
7. ↑ Robert Stieglitz: Why the ex-world champion gives new strength to his divorce. In: mz-web.de , January 12, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Károly Balzsay	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) August 22, 2009 - August 25, 2012	Arthur Abraham
Arthur Abraham	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) March 23, 2013 - March 1, 2014	Arthur Abraham