[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]DiBella grabs Stieglitz-Andrade! A purse bid was held today in the IBF office for the IBF super middleweight eliminator for #1 between Robert Stieglitz and Librado Andrade. DiBella Promotions was the winning bidder with a bid of $251,000. Spotlight Promotions bid $ 166,622. The winning bidder has 90 days to put this fight on. :huh [/FONT]
Andrade is with Golden Boy Promotion and from I understand they indeed did not participate into the purse bid process. I've looked on boxrec.com and it looks like DiBella doesn't have any shows schedule yet except one on March 5th but that's way to soon for that fight.
Andrade is going to destroy Stieglitz. I'm glad this fight is getting made, it's a good move for Andrade.
Interesting fight...I honestly haven't seen much of Stieglitz, so I can't really say who should win. Andrade's resume looks stronger, though.
steiglitz is quite a good fighter , very entertaining and strong, and should not be counted out v andrade. steiglitz lost to berrio 2nd time around because he walked onto one from one of the biggest punchers of the division. remember andrade wore mack down by accumilation until the stoppage, and berrio did it of one punch as berrio also ko`s the same vanderpool with one punch that lacy wore down by attrition. it will be a good fight , the styles will gell well, steiglitz is a boxer puncher, who likes to set a high workrate, is in your face and is willing to take a punch to land a punch and has good heavy hands as well, and is very strong having come down from light heavy where he had all his early fights. noting wrong with his chin, in the first fight he took many berrio shots and still came on strong and stopped him late. perhaps it was over confidence in the second fight. defending steiglitz like this though i do think andrade will win, he throws more punches, is rangier and steiglitz is not the fastest boxer to capatalise on andrade`s mistakes. but it will be a good all action affair.
Cheers mate. I'm sure there's quite a few around here who haven't seen that much of Stielglitz (if anything), so that was a good read.
Wonder who will show this fight? PPV, HBO, Showtime? Sounds like a good fight coming up..........Should be on USTV.
Stieglitz is defensive, but too hittable to be very effective and his chin is weak. If Andrade doesn't catch him with anything big in the first 6 rounds, he'll wear him down by simply being on him all night and stop him when he's tiring and more hittable in the last 6. Andrade will be down on points, but his nonstop aggression, ability to walk through any punches, great stamina/workrate, and power should give him a stoppage win. He's a better fighter than Berrio, even though his power isn't as good.