| Robert Stieglitz | |
| Realname: | Sergey Shtikhlits |
| Weight: |
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| Height: | 1.80 m |
| Nationality: | German |
| Birth Date: | 20 June 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 57 |
| Wins: | 50 |
| Ko: | 29 |
| Losses: | 5 |
| Draws: | 2 |
Sergey Shtikhlits (born 20 June 1981), best known as Robert Stieglitz, is a German former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He held the WBO super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and the European light-heavyweight title from 2016 to 2017.
Stieglitz is part of the German diaspora that exists in Russia, and his original surname of Shtikhlits is a Russified version of the German surname Stieglitz, which he now uses. He himself has said that, even when living in Russia, he always felt foreign and he felt German. Stieglitz went to live in Germany as soon as he got the chance.
Stieglitz had an amateur record of 80 wins and 10 losses.[1]
After accumulating a record of 31-1, Stieglitz then suffered his second loss to Mexico's Librado Andrade in eight rounds at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California in an IBF super-middleweight title eliminator.[2] Stieglitz won the vacant WBC International super-middleweight title on December 9, 2008 in Sölden (Austria) to previously unbeaten Lukas Wilaschek.
Stieglitz vacated the WBC International on 22 June 2009, to fight Karoly Balzsay for the WBO super-middleweight title. At the end of round ten, as a groggy and beaten Balzsay barely wobbled back to his corner, Balzsay's trainer Fritz Sdinek called for help and Balzsay was quickly taken from the ring to the hospital on a stretcher with his neck in a neck brace.[3] Stieglitz recorded a fifth-round technical knockout of Ruben Eduardo Acosta to retain his WBO super-middleweight title. The fight was stopped at 1:48 to give Stieglitz the victory in his first defense.[4] On April 17, 2010, he successfully defended his title in Magdeburg against Eduard Gutknecht.[5]
Stieglitz retained his title with a hard-fought unanimous decision over his Mexican challenger Enrique Ornelas, Andrade's younger brother, at the Freiberger Arena in Dresden. It was a slow start of both fights and little less action but Stieglitz started this fight in style in the second round. The German champion progressed the fight with his sharp jab to give Ornelas some trouble but the Mexican also landed some precise and dangerous shots towards Stieglitz.[6]
He then made successful defenses against Khoren Gevor and Henry Weber.[7] [8] Stieglitz was supposed to face former three-time titleholder Mikkel Kessler in his hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark to defend his 168-pound belt on April 14, 2012[9] but Kessler pulled out due to injury. Instead, he defended the title with a unanimous decision win over Nader Hamdan on May 5, 2012.[10]
Stieglitz then lost the WBO super-middleweight title to Arthur Abraham on August 25, 2012.[11] He would rebound with a win over Michal Nieroda on January 26, 2013 before avenging his loss to Abraham and regaining the WBO super-middleweight title with a fourth-round knockout on March 23, 2013.[12]
His first defense in his second reign as WBO super-middleweight champion was a tenth-round TKO win over Yuzo Kiyota on July 13, 2013.[13] The result was originally announced as a Technical Decision win for Stieglitz, but was changed to a TKO after the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer examined the ending of the fight and concluded that Stieglitz did not accidentally headbutt Kiyota. The change was approved by the WBO.[14]
His second defense in his second reign as WBO Champion was against Isaac Ekpo on October 19, 2013. Stieglitz won via unanimous decision.[15]
A rubber match with Arthur Abraham took place on March 1, 2014, with the WBO super-middleweight title on the line once again. Stieglitz lost the bout via split decision.[16]
On 23 May 2017 he announced his retirement from professional boxing with a record of 50 wins, 5 losses and 2 draws. The retirement was injury-related, due to the various operations on his left hand and a shoulder injury which had not fully healed.[17]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Draw | 50–5–2 | Nikola Sjekloća | SD | 12 | 18 Mar 2017 | |||
| 56 | Win | 50–5–1 | Mehdi Amar | UD | 12 | 12 Nov 2016 | |||
| 55 | Win | 49–5–1 | Ricardo Marcelo Ramallo | TKO | 5 (8), | 5 Mar 2016 | |||
| 54 | Win | 48–5–1 | Robert Rosenberg | RTD | 2 (8), | 17 Oct 2015 | |||
| 53 | Loss | 47–5–1 | Arthur Abraham | TKO | 6 (12), | 18 Jul 2015 | |||
| 52 | Draw | 47–4–1 | Felix Sturm | 12 | 8 Nov 2014 | ||||
| 51 | Win | 47–4 | Sergey Khomitsky | TKO | 10 (12), | 26 Jul 2014 | |||
| 50 | Loss | 46–4 | Arthur Abraham | SD | 12 | 1 Mar 2014 | |||
| 49 | Win | 46–3 | Isaac Ekpo | UD | 12 | 19 Oct 2013 | |||
| 48 | Win | 45–3 | Yuzo Kiyota | TKO | 10 (12), | 13 Jul 2013 | |||
| 47 | Win | 44–3 | Arthur Abraham | TKO | 4 (12), | 23 Mar 2013 | |||
| 46 | Win | 43–3 | Michal Nieroda | KO | 3 (8), | 26 Jan 2013 | |||
| 45 | Loss | 42–3 | Arthur Abraham | UD | 12 | 25 Aug 2012 | |||
| 44 | Win | 42–2 | Nader Hamdan | UD | 12 | 5 May 2012 | |||
| 43 | Win | 41–2 | Henry Weber | UD | 12 | 14 Jan 2012 | |||
| 42 | Win | 40–2 | Khoren Gevor | 10 (12), | 9 Apr 2011 | ||||
| 41 | Win | 39–2 | Enrique Ornelas | UD | 12 | 20 Nov 2010 | |||
| 40 | Win | 38–2 | Eduard Gutknecht | UD | 12 | 17 Apr 2010 | |||
| 39 | Win | 37–2 | Ruben Eduardo Acosta | TKO | 5 (12), | 9 Jan 2010 | |||
| 38 | Win | 36–2 | Károly Balzsay | TKO | 11 (12), | 22 Aug 2009 | |||
| 37 | Win | 35–2 | Jindrich Velecky | UD | 10 | 15 May 2009 | |||
| 36 | Win | 34–2 | Dmitri Protkunas | TKO | 4 (8), | 10 Jan 2009 | |||
| 35 | Win | 33–2 | Lukas Wilaschek | 12 | 9 Dec 2008 | ||||
| 34 | Win | 32–2 | Fawaz Nasir | TKO | 5 (8), | 11 Jul 2008 | |||
| 33 | Loss | 31–2 | Librado Andrade | TKO | 8 (12), | 22 Mar 2008 | |||
| 32 | Win | 31–1 | William Gare | UD | 10 | 13 Oct 2007 | |||
| 31 | Win | 30–1 | Marlon Hayes | UD | 8 | 2 Jun 2007 | |||
| 30 | Loss | 29–1 | Alejandro Berrio | TKO | 3 (12), | 3 Mar 2007 | |||
| 29 | Win | 29–0 | Eric Howard | KO | 5 (8), | 10 Oct 2006 | |||
| 28 | Win | 28–0 | Alejandro Berrio | TKO | 11 (12), | 3 Dec 2005 | |||
| 27 | Win | 27–0 | Francis Cheka | TKO | 5 (12), | 9 Jul 2005 | |||
| 26 | Win | 26–0 | Lawrence Chapman | 11 (12), | 16 Apr 2005 | ||||
| 25 | Win | 25–0 | Alexander Zaitsev | UD | 12 | 11 Dec 2004 | |||
| 24 | Win | 24–0 | Yuri Tsarenka | UD | 12 | 18 Sep 2004 | |||
| 23 | Win | 23–0 | Djamel Selini | UD | 12 | 5 Jun 2004 | |||
| 22 | Win | 22–0 | Galen Brown | TKO | 7 (12), | 21 Feb 2004 | |||
| 21 | Win | 21–0 | Marcin Radola | TKO | 1 (6) | 29 Nov 2003 | |||
| 20 | Win | 20–0 | Yuri Barashian | UD | 10 | 20 Sep 2003 | |||
| 19 | Win | 19–0 | Roman Aramyan | UD | 10 | 5 Jul 2003 | |||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 | Jeno Novak | KO | 4 (8) | 25 Apr 2003 | |||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 | Dzianis Salomka | UD | 10 | 1 Mar 2003 | |||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Sergey Karanevich | UD | 10 | 31 Oct 2002 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Talal Santiago | TKO | 3 (8), | 21 Sep 2002 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Pavel Cirok | TKO | 4 (6), | 8 Jun 2002 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Marius Mihai Dumitru | KO | 2 (6) | 11 May 2002 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Laszlo Dolgos | TKO | 3 (6), | 13 Apr 2002 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Bruce Oezbek | UD | 6 | 16 Mar 2002 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Laszlo Dolgos | TKO | 3 (4) | 23 Feb 2002 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Terrence Paliso | TKO | 2 (6) | 5 Jan 2002 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Roman Nikodem | KO | 3 (6) | 8 Dec 2001 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Henry Mobio | 4 | 15 Sep 2001 | ||||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Patrick Madzinga | TKO | 2 (4), | 7 Jul 2001 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Ondrej Olah | TKO | 2 (4) | 22 Jun 2001 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Tomas Kugler | 4 (4) | 8 Jun 2001 | ||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Karel Ferenc | KO | 2 (4) | 28 Apr 2001 | |||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Pavel Veprek | 1 (4) | 22 Apr 2001 | ||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Petr Pokorny | 4 | 7 Apr 2001 |