See Skeletons! 22-0 Edmund Gerber Exposed by Sprott in Rematch
By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent
Hamburg, Germany (December 15th, 2012)–It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. When a fighter gets exposed, the skeletons are laughing and its Halloween all over again. And continue to be exposed heavyweight pretender contenders shall me. My only question is, who’ll be the next unbeaten heavyweight to bite the dust?
The Klitschko brothers have exposed Odlanier Solis, Manuel Charr, Kevin Johnson, Chris Arreola, Timo Hoffman, Ed Mahone, Alben Belinski, Marius Wach, Ruslan Chagaev, Calvin Brock, Eliseo Castillo, Najee Shaheed to name a few, some early in the first round. Alexander Povetkin exposed 30-0 Eddie Chambers. Muhammad Ali exposed George Foreman. 20 years later, George Foreman exposed Michael Moorer, who had exposed Evander Holyfield, so on and so forth. Even Rocky Marciano got disqualified in the amateurs by Coley Wallace, and Larry Holmes got exposed in the amateurs by Duane Bobick.
See Duane Bobick beat Larry Holmes in 1972 Olympic Trials on YouTube, call by Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali. Bobick even knocks Holmes down in the first!
“You never can tell who’s coming up!” Muhammad Ali during the commentary.
Top ranked heavyweights continue to get exposed. When this happens, only a rematch can save the financial pot invested to rescue their careers. Witness the scheduled rematch between top heavyweight Johnathon Banks and ex-football player Seth Mitchell, which will take place on February 13. Banks, a protege of Emmanuel Steward and currently Wladimir Klitschko’s trainer, exposed the 25-0 Mitchell in the second round of their Atlantic City bout on November 17, dropping and stopping him. Such a rematch for WBC and WBO regional heavyweight titles is a miserable excuse by Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions to sell tickets.
Germany is the land of great heavyweights, those rising stars detined to succeed Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, destined to beat Alexander Povetkin and rise to the top of the heap.
Well, not always. Great Britain may have David Price and Tyson Fury on the rise.
‘The Nordic Nightmare’, Sweden’s Robert Heleunius, fights out of Berlin but he is from Stockholm. Poland has Artur Szpilka. Russia has Magomed Abdusalamov.
American has Bryan Jennings, Deontay Wilder, Joe Hanks and Tor Hamer.
In Germany in 2010, 19-0 Frankfurt’s Sebastian Koeber got exposed twice in his native Germany, losing six round decisions to journeyman Zack Page and Marcus Tomala. Who next to fall?
Exposed on Saturday, December 15, 2012, was Germany’s number one ranked BoxRec heavyweight, 22-0 Edmund Gerber, who lost a majority decision to former two time European heavyweight champion Michael Sprott, a grudge match rematch. This past September, Gerber stopped Sprott controversially, in what appeared to be a ‘fix’. Sprott, who was knocked down, but got back up, and raised his hands during the count and was fine to continue, angry the referee stopped the bout and gave it to Gerber for what he saw as no good reason, shoved, attacked and knocked out referee Gerhard Siql in anger and frustration, obviously still in control of his senses.
Sprott-Gerber I September 2012 controversial ending on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4XAZOBFUo
The German reputation of having stars in their eyes for German fighters remains today a major eyesore in professional boxing. Either knock’em out in Germany, or you’ll never win, making German a pit stop for losers and world title fights only, without much interest in the middle ground for worldwide contenders believing they can ever get a a fair shake fighting in Germany.
The controversial ending of Sprott-Gerber I necessitated an immediate rematch to settle the question of whether Gerber got unwarranted ‘special treatment’ in the previous bout by having a Sprott-Gerber II. This time, with referee Joerg Milke NOT stopping the bout, Sprott defeated Gerber by a 97-94, 97-94, 95-95 majority. Milke had refereed Gerber’s eight round decision win over Darnell Wilson this past November. Even if Gerber had won one more round on the cards, the same two judges who put Sprott over the top would have still put Sprott over the top. As it was, Sprott busted up Gerber good and gave the pretender a beating on his feet.
Sprott, now 37-19, had lost four consecutive bouts, to Gerber, Kubrat Pulev, Alexander Dimitrenko and Tye Fields. Sprott has also lost to Alexander Ustinov, Lamon Brewster, Taras Bydenko, Matt Skelton, Ruslan Chagaev, Vladimir Virchis, Corrie Sanders, Timo Hoffman, Harry Senior, Wayne Llewellyn, Danny Williams (twice) and Pablo Vidoz (twice). Sprott’s record include ‘impressive’ knockout wins over 0-7 Johnny Davison (twice over the winless foe), 0-3 Nick Howard, 0-9 Alvin Miller, 0-1-1 Geoff Hunter, 1-4 Tamas Feheri, and 7-13-1 Werner Kreiskott. Forgive me if we are not impressed by these so-called impressive kayo victories.
Most noteworthy, however, is the fact this is the fourth time Sprott has exposed fraudulent unbeaten aspirants with so-called padded records. Besides the 22-0 Gerber, Sprott has exposed 18-0 Rene Dettweiler, 21-0 Cengic Koc, and 8-0-1 Colin Kenna.
With the major heavyweight upset, Sprott will attempt to regain his European Heavyweight title one more time. Sprott will face 18-0 Robert Helenius, the Nordic Nightmare, also a former European Heavyweight champion, for the vacant title in early 2013. As for Gerber, his career will hinge on winning a rematch with Sprott, Knowing the Germans, eventually the pretender will probably get it. In either case, the German training camp of world champions Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko, and their trainer and top contender Johnathon Banks is not overly concerned. They probably will take a close look at Robert Helenius is he wins over Sprott as a potential opponent, if David Haye, Tyson Fury and British champion David Price remain unavailable-or if they prefer to fight Alexander Povetkin.
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