Felix Sturm: record, next fight and profile →
Australia's IBF middleweight boxing world champion Daniel Geale is optimistic his unification fight against Russia's WBO title holder Dmitry Pirog will still go ahead, but has revealed a contingency plan should it not get sanctioned.
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (37-2-2, 16 KOs) continues to discuss his willingness to stage a unification bout with WBO beltholder Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15KOs). Pirog is scheduled to return on May 1 in Russia against Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan. Should Pirog win, he is possibly going to face IBF champion Daniel Geale on an August date in the United States. Sturm is also planning to make his next title defense in the month of August.
In an earlier article on BoxingScene.com, WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (37-2-2, 16 KOs) discussed his willingness to stage a unification bout with WBO beltholder Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15KOs). Pirog is scheduled to return on May 1 in Russia against Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan. Should Pirog win, he is possibly going to face IBF champion Daniel Geale on an August date in the United States.
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (37-2, 16KOs) is looking to return in the month of August. Sturm retained his title last Friday in Cologne with a nine round stoppage of countryman Sebastian Zbik. Sturm, the WBA's super champion at 160-pounds, received special permission from the sanctioning body to fight Zbik - as long as the winner would face mandatory challenger and WBA "regular" champion Gennady Golovkin (22-0, 19KOs) by September.
Rediscovering his once-vaunted jab (he landed an avg. of 15 per round, nearly three times the wgt. class avg vs. Sebastian Zbik.), WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm landed 52% of his power shots, including 68% in round seven and 58% in round eight.
German boxer Sebastian Zbik (30-2, 10KOs) hadno excuses for Friday's stoppage loss to WBA middleweight king Felix Sturm (37-2-2, 16KOs) in Cologne, Germany. Zbik started well in the first two rounds, but he faded as the rounds continued. After taking a lot of punishment in the eight and ninth rounds, the entire team decided to stop the fight before the start of the tenth.
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (37-2-2, 16 KOs) is open to a unification bout with WBO beltholder Dmitry Pirog. (19-0, 15KOs). On Friday in Cologne, Sturm stopped former WBC champion Sebastian Zbik (30-2, 10 KOs) in nine rounds.
A German night of boxing at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. The main event of the evening is the WBA middleweight championship between super champion Felix Sturm and former WBC titleholder Sebastian Zbik. The undercard, however, is already under way...
Birmingham’s Matt Macklin appeared desperately unfortunate not to elope with Sturm’s title when the pair collided in Cologne last June. The split decision in Sturm’s favour invoked major media dissent, even within the German press. Matt Macklin says: ‘I’ve followed Zbik since we both competed at the same weight in the 2000 World Juniors in Budapest and I’ve always kept an eye out for him since. When I fought Ruben Varon, I studied his fight against Zbik, and Zbik impressed, knocking him out with body shots. He’s a technical fighter
A tense weigh-in took place in Germany, between former Universum stablemates Felix Sturm (36-2-2, 15KOs) and Sebastian Zbik (30-1, 10KOs). They boxers have traded words for weeks and promise to make it a war. Sturm defends his WBA middleweight title against Zbik on Friday night at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. In the co-feature, rising heavyweight Denis Boytsov (30-0, 25KOs) will fight American veteran Domonick Guinn (33-8-1, 22KOs).