Monday, March 13 2006
Wilfried Sauerland, promoter of IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham, has made a public $1.2 million offer to the camp of newly crowned WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm, for an August 19 title unification showdown between Sturm and Abraham. "The boxing fans in Germany want to know who the true middleweight champion is," said Sauerland. "We offer this attractive fight to the fans because Arthur is ready.....we've always held the opinion that Abraham against Sturm only becomes a topic if both are world champions. Now Felix Sturm also has the title and we can have the fight. Both these exceptional boxers fighting against each other would be the high point of the year. I hope that that this fight comes."
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Before that fight can happen, however, Abraham already has a title defense lined up for May 13 in Zwickau, Germany. He began training today in Berlin for that fight.
hehe, who were those guys saying that sturm is a pussy for not taking the taylor fight and that he can fight bums in germany for chump change? no no my friends ive told u that sturm can make more fighting in germany then shitty deal of 750k to fight taylor in taylors backyard.
that report is from fightnews and im sure sturm will take it, both are huge and the best euro middleweights right now, and the winner of those 2 should get the winky/taylor winner
Hey raesaad,
I believe he was offered 750,000 to fight Hopkins. What do you mean it's not enough? How much do you think he makes in his fights?
You must have missed my rolling eyes after it........IMO it is plenty.
LOL......Sturm will probably turn it down thats not enough for a world class fighter like Sturm. :rolleyes: I am wondering how this could be anyway does'nt Abraham have to face Miranda now?
Time will tell. Just be patient and we'll see Arthur easily defending his belt against Kofi Jantuah and Edison Miranda. Then well hear people saying that he still hasn't proven himself. I just have one question who has Jermain Taylor beaten besides an old and dusty Bernard Hopkins who is about to retire. Couple years ago Jermain Taylor wouldnt have the chance of beating Hopkins let alone going 12 rounds with him. So besides Hopkins who has Taylor beaten? You guys hype up these American boxers like they are the shit. Man look at what happened to Jeff Lacy. It was embarrassing. A hyped up fighter who was beaten by the "underdog" Joe Calzaghe. But then again time will tell guys so lets just chill and wait for the time to come. And when it does ill be the first one to talk.
Sturm wins easily....and I don't even like him..but seeing i've seen just about every fight of both of these fighters, I'll bet a lot on Sturm....Abraham is a young gun, but can not compete with classy technical boxers like sturm, taylor, etc who have exceptional conditioning and can go 12 rounds withouth breaking a sweat!
Actually this offer of 1M Euro or 1.2M USD was made like a month ago(sturm won his belt on 11 march and this offer was made like coupla days after his win), anyways my point is why hasnt he replied yet? i mean its been more than 3 weeks now and we havent heard anything from sturm camp.? Mayb he doesnt wanna risk his belt or something?
in professional sport, and particularly professional boxing, "offers" in the press don't mean much and have very little truth behind them and furthermore, REPLYING isn't done via the press or on msn......there is a world of difference!
Actually this offer of 1M Euro or 1.2M USD was made like a month ago(sturm won his belt on 11 march and this offer was made like coupla days after his win), anyways my point is why hasnt he replied yet? i mean its been more than 3 weeks now and we havent heard anything from sturm camp.? Mayb he doesnt wanna risk his belt or something?
I think Sturm should take this fight cos both of these fighters are paper champs, they got their belts cos taylor dumped those belts, and tbh we(boxing fans) All know that teh real champ is Jermain taylor(and soon to be winky) so whats teh Fuss :D
Just take this fight man, winner should get title shot at winky(once winky schools jermain)
regards
He was offered 1.2 million USD. Is he going to get more fighting anyone else?
i doubt it.
This would be a very exciting fight to watch. I hope Sturm is man enough to step up and take the offer. I dont think its the money that is the issue here.
I wonder why Sturm hasn't responded to the offer yet.lol. It would be a great fight since both fighters are out to prove they are the top middleweights.