How is Sturm Still even relevant and with a title? he isn't that good at all

Close fight, but it's strange how people make out as if he Murray was robbed. The Macklin fight was much closer, that one i can understand why people say he was robbed. Was Sturm mandatory for Barker? if he was it's abit strange because losing to Soliman, and beating a bum shouldn't put you in a mandatory spot. Agree, Murray was lucky to get a draw, Mack was shortchanged. Soliman was a no contest since he pissed dirty

The Murray fight wasn't a gift. Sturm's capable of beating the fighters who hold belts, that's why he's relevant. Close fight, but it's strange how people make out as if he Murray was robbed. The Macklin fight was much closer, that one i can understand why people say he was robbed. Was Sturm mandatory for Barker? if he was it's abit strange because losing to Soliman, and beating a bum shouldn't put you in a mandatory spot.

The Murray fight wasn't a gift. Sturm's capable of beating the fighters who hold belts, that's why he's relevant.

Ring Magazine is wrong all the time. They had Broner in the top 5 pfp when he had done nothing to be ranked that high. I think Sturm is popular in Germany and maybe that is why he gets title shots so often. He clearly is not the 2nd best middleweight in the world and he gets more than his share of wins in Germany that he did not deserve. Yea I agree that ring magazine is a joke. Ring magazine did not even have Rigo as a choice for their fans fighter of the year and they had 9 choices. Rigo beat donaire , who won the award in 2012. Absolutely ridiculous.

Sturm's nothing special, but he's a decent fighter and for the most part his fights are fun to watch for those reasons he manages to stay a stalwart in his division and he just sparked Barker for a title, so why wouldn't he be relevant? plus Bozz is here to drive the 1 man bandwagon for him :laugh:

Ring Magazine is wrong all the time. They had Broner in the top 5 pfp when he had done nothing to be ranked that high. I think Sturm is popular in Germany and maybe that is why he gets title shots so often. He clearly is not the 2nd best middleweight in the world and he gets more than his share of wins in Germany that he did not deserve.

All it takes is someone to break their hip...

He has money.

Thread was answered in your own title. It's BECAUSE he has a belt that he is relevant. Definitely can't forgive his utter, blatant and cowardly ducking of GGG though.

u're talking about him, now he's relevant on nsb again

Because he's sexy.

He's relevant because he has a title, he has a title because he beat Barker..pretty simple. :)

why is he still relevant? because the UK still produce fighters :dance: Omg haha. Good one.

He was the IBF mandatory. Barker had to give him the shot. And Sturm is relevant in the sense that he brings a lot of money to the table in Germany. Barker is entitled to a rematch, though it appears unlikely he takes it. If he were to win that, that might push Sturm into irrelevancy. My understanding is that this fight was seen as Sturm's last shot.

why is he still relevant? because the UK still produce fighters :dance: