STURM LOWBALLS MACKLIN; DEMANDS 40% OF MACKLIN'S FUTURE EARNINGS SHOULD MACKLIN WIN REMATCH
By Press Release | August 17, 2011
Matthew Macklin emerged on the wrong side of a highly controversial split decision when he challenged for Felix Sturm's WBA world middleweight title in Cologne on June 25. Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who was covering the fight for EPIX, a U.S. television channel, said that the decision was a "highway robbery" and one of the worst decisions he had ever seen while a viewers poll on the website of German TV network SAT.1 spoke volumes with 76% of Germans polled believing that Macklin had won the fight as opposed to just 24% for Sturm
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