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As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, WBA super middleweight world champion Felix Sturm has tested positive for stanozolol after winning his world championship rematch with Russia's Fedor Chudinov. Sturm plans to appeal, saying he knows he's clean.
According to a report in the always well informed Bild paper, WBA super middleweight champion Felix Sturm has failed his post-fight drug test to the twelve round decision win over Fedor Chudinov two months ago in Germany.
Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (49-2-1, 32KOs) has almost fully recovered from an injury to his left heel during training. The injury forced him to withdraw from a planned fight with WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack on April 30th.
It was the sort of fight that did the sport, and the man who should have won, no favors. Make no mistake. Fedor Chudinov should still be undefeated. He outworked, outfought, and cut veteran Felix Sturm, commanding most of the first eleven rounds of their rematch last weekend. He threw more and landed more and should have won more rounds.
This past Saturday night in Oberhausen, Germany - 37-year-old Felix Sturm captured the WBA super middleweight championship with a controversial twelve round majority decision over 28-year-old unbeaten champion Fedor Chudinov of Russia. The scores were 115-113, 115-113, 114-114.
The team behind former super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov are planning to have his gloves examined from this past Saturday's twelve round majority decision loss to Felix Sturm in Germany.
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.
Yesterday before a packed crowd in Oberhausen, Germany - 37-year-old German Felix Sturm captured the WBA super middleweight championship by winning a twelve round majority decision over previously unbeaten 28-year-old Russian beltholder Fedor Chudinov.
OBERHAUSEN, Germany -- Felix Sturm of Germany defeated the previously unbeaten Fedor Chudinov of Russia by majority decision in their rematch to reclaim his WBA super middleweight title on Saturday.
OBERHAUSEN, Germany- Felix Sturm of Germany defeated the previously unbeaten Fedor Chudinov of Russia by majority decision in their rematch to reclaim his WBA super middleweight title on Saturday.