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.

Early life 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.

Amateur career Stieglitz had an amateur record of 80 wins and 10 losses.

Professional career 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. Stieglitz won the vacant WBC International super-middleweight title on December 9, 2008 in Sölden (Austria) to previously unbeaten Lukas Wilaschek.

WBO super-middleweight champion 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. 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. On April 17, 2010, he successfully defended his title in Magdeburg against Eduard Gutknecht.

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.

He then made successful defenses against Khoren Gevor and Henry Weber. 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 but Kessler pulled out due to injury. Instead, he defended the title with a unanimous decision win over Nader Hamdan on May 5, 2012.

Stieglitz vs. Arthur Abraham trilogy Stieglitz then lost the WBO super-middleweight title to Arthur Abraham on August 25, 2012. 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.

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. 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.

His second defense in his second reign as WBO Champion was against Isaac Ekpo on October 19, 2013. Stieglitz won via unanimous decision.

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.

Retirement 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.

Professional boxing record

ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes57Draw50–5–2Nikola SjekloćaSD1218 Mar 201756Win50–5–1Mehdi AmarUD1212 Nov 201655Win49–5–1Ricardo Marcelo RamalloTKO5 (8), 5 Mar 201654Win48–5–1Robert RosenbergRTD2 (8), 17 Oct 201553Loss47–5–1Arthur AbrahamTKO6 (12), 18 Jul 201552Draw47–4–1Felix Sturm128 Nov 201451Win47–4Sergey KhomitskyTKO10 (12), 26 Jul 201450Loss46–4Arthur AbrahamSD121 Mar 201449Win46–3Isaac EkpoUD1219 Oct 201348Win45–3Yuzo KiyotaTKO10 (12), 13 Jul 201347Win44–3Arthur AbrahamTKO4 (12), 23 Mar 201346Win43–3Michal NierodaKO3 (8), 26 Jan 201345Loss42–3Arthur AbrahamUD1225 Aug 201244Win42–2Nader HamdanUD125 May 201243Win41–2Henry WeberUD1214 Jan 201242Win40–2Khoren Gevor10 (12), 9 Apr 201141Win39–2Enrique OrnelasUD1220 Nov 201040Win38–2Eduard GutknechtUD1217 Apr 201039Win37–2Ruben Eduardo AcostaTKO5 (12), 9 Jan 201038Win36–2Károly BalzsayTKO11 (12), 22 Aug 200937Win35–2Jindrich VeleckyUD1015 May 200936Win34–2Dmitri ProtkunasTKO4 (8), 10 Jan 200935Win33–2Lukas Wilaschek129 Dec 200834Win32–2Fawaz NasirTKO5 (8), 11 Jul 200833Loss31–2Librado AndradeTKO8 (12), 22 Mar 200832Win31–1William GareUD1013 Oct 200731Win30–1Marlon HayesUD82 Jun 200730Loss29–1Alejandro BerrioTKO3 (12), 3 Mar 200729Win29–0Eric HowardKO5 (8), 10 Oct 200628Win28–0Alejandro BerrioTKO11 (12), 3 Dec 200527Win27–0Francis ChekaTKO5 (12), 9 Jul 200526Win26–0Lawrence Chapman11 (12), 16 Apr 200525Win25–0Alexander ZaitsevUD1211 Dec 200424Win24–0Yuri TsarenkaUD1218 Sep 200423Win23–0Djamel SeliniUD125 Jun 200422Win22–0Galen BrownTKO7 (12), 21 Feb 200421Win21–0Marcin RadolaTKO1 (6)29 Nov 200320Win20–0Yuri BarashianUD1020 Sep 200319Win19–0Roman AramyanUD105 Jul 200318Win18–0Jeno NovakKO4 (8)25 Apr 200317Win17–0Dzianis SalomkaUD101 Mar 200316Win16–0Sergey KaranevichUD1031 Oct 200215Win15–0Talal SantiagoTKO3 (8), 21 Sep 200214Win14–0Pavel CirokTKO4 (6), 8 Jun 200213Win13–0Marius Mihai DumitruKO2 (6)11 May 200212Win12–0Laszlo DolgosTKO3 (6), 13 Apr 200211Win11–0Bruce OezbekUD616 Mar 200210Win10–0Laszlo DolgosTKO3 (4)23 Feb 20029Win9–0Terrence PalisoTKO2 (6)5 Jan 20028Win8–0Roman NikodemKO3 (6)8 Dec 20017Win7–0Henry Mobio415 Sep 20016Win6–0Patrick MadzingaTKO2 (4), 7 Jul 20015Win5–0Ondrej OlahTKO2 (4)22 Jun 20014Win4–0Tomas Kugler4 (4)8 Jun 20013Win3–0Karel FerencKO2 (4)28 Apr 20012Win2–0Pavel Veprek1 (4)22 Apr 20011Win1–0Petr Pokorny47 Apr 2001

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