Brandon Sun, Canada Dec. 11, 2005 LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Armenia's Arthur Abraham stopped Kingsley Ikeke of Toronto in the fifth round to win the vacant IBF middleweight title on Saturday. Abraham improved to 20-0 with 18 knockouts as he took the title vacated by Jermaine Taylor. Ikeke, ranked second by the IBF, fell to 23-2. "It was his fight, not mine - I couldn't stop him," said Ikeke, who defected to Canada from Nigeria during the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. Abraham had no trouble hitting the six-foot-four Ikeke. By the fourth round, he was taunting Ikeke, and Abraham's corner told him to stop showing off. In the fifth, Abraham knocked Ikeke into the ropes with a left, and after several more shots the referee pulled him off Ikeke. "It may not have looked like it tonight, but I think he beat a world-class guy," said Abraham's trainer, Uli Wegner.
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