By Igor Lazorin, tass
Russian promotional firm Patriot, who handle former world champion Fedor Chudinov, are filing an official protest over the Saturday's twelve round decision loss to Felix Sturm in Germany.
Last year Chudinov defeated Sturm on a close decision to capture the vacant WBA super middleweight title. For reasons unknown, the WBA ordered Chudinov to fight Sturm in a rematch.
Sturm became a five time world champion with the rematch victory, by way of a majority nod from the judges. One judge had it a draw 114-114, while the other two scored it 115-113.
Most observers felt Chuninov was robbed of a win, some scored it a draw, but very few had the fight pegged in favor of Sturm.
Chudinov's ability to overturn the decision is not likely, but the best case scenario is the WBA will issue an order to force Sturm to make an immediate trilogy defense against Chudinov.
"In our opinion, the decision was wrong, unprofessional and dishonest," was the statement by Patriot in the protest.
The 28-year-old Chudinov now has a record of 14 wins (10 by KO), one loss. The record of 37-year-old Sturm was raised to 40 wins (18 by KO), 5 losses, 3 draws.
Prior to this fight, Sturm won four world titles - middleweight belts under the World Boxing Organization (WBO) , the WBA and International Boxing Federation (IBF).