Sturm turns down 160 title shot, stays at 168

[Hougigo]

I will not fight at middleweight !!! That time is over....***10;***10;#168

— Felix Sturm (@SturmBoxing) February 9, 2015

Dont' know why he waited until today...

Anyway Saunders is up, then Lemeuix, Quillin's now out, then Sam Soliman then Eamon O'Kane

[Eastcoast]

No surprise with Sturm. They said he had trouble with the weight for years and a mega fight with Abraham is going to be big money. Even a rematch with Steiglitz is far more money than a risky fight with N'Dam.

IBF updated their rankings following the Mora win. Luckily they didn't move Mora up past Soliman otherwise Haymon would've controlled the IBF title fight.

How outrageous does it look to see Geale ranked below Mora & O'Kane? The guy was their last champion to have a successful title defense, lost it via close decision, then beats another formed IBF ranked fighter in Fletcher winning every round...

1 Hassan N'Dam Cameroon
2 NOT RATED
3 Felix Sturm Germany
4 Billy Joe Saunders England
5 David Lemieux Canada
6 Sam Soliman Australia
7 Sergio Mora United States
8 Eamonn O'Kane Northern Ireland
9 Daniel Geale Australia
10 Curtis Stevens United States
11 Adam Etches England
12 Tureano Johnson United States
13 Jorge Heiland Argentina
14 Patrick Nielsen Denmark
15 Ryota Murata Japan

http://www.ibfusbaregistration.com/i...?view=rankings

[hjenkins10]

Saunders has landed on his feet nicely, N'Dam is beatable

[Hougigo]

No surprise with Sturm. They said he had trouble with the weight for years and a mega fight with Abraham is going to be big money. Even a rematch with Steiglitz is far more money than a risky fight with N'Dam.

IBF updated their rankings following the Mora win. Luckily they didn't move Mora up past Soliman otherwise Haymon would've controlled the IBF title fight.

How outrageous does it look to see Geale ranked below Mora & O'Kane? The guy was their last champion to have a successful title defense, lost it via close decision, then beats another formed IBF ranked fighter in Fletcher winning every round...

1 Hassan N'Dam Cameroon
2 NOT RATED
3 Felix Sturm Germany
4 Billy Joe Saunders England
5 David Lemieux Canada
6 Sam Soliman Australia
7 Sergio Mora United States
8 Eamonn O'Kane Northern Ireland
9 Daniel Geale Australia
10 Curtis Stevens United States
11 Adam Etches England
12 Tureano Johnson United States
13 Jorge Heiland Argentina
14 Patrick Nielsen Denmark
15 Ryota Murata Japan

http://www.ibfusbaregistration.com/i...?view=rankings

Just saw the rankings.... Come the **** on... I"m not even going to bother censoring myself because this is ****ing bull****... COME ON!
How is Geale rated lower than Mora and ****ing O'Kane?

Solomon probably going to be paid a step aside fee or some B.S

N'Dam still wins, but he's getting set up to lose

[Weebler I]

Just saw the rankings.... Come the **** on... I"m not even going to bother censoring myself because this is ****ing bull****... COME ON!
How is Geale rated lower than Mora and ****ing O'Kane?

Solomon probably going to be paid a step aside fee or some B.S

N'Dam still wins, but he's getting set up to lose

What am I missing here, why have you jumped over Saunders and Lemieux?

[Hougigo]

What am I missing here, why have you jumped over Saunders and Lemieux?

Saunders is an assumption because all they're talking about is big stadium fight against the winner for the WBO.

Also he's most likely in it more for the money than the belt since he gave up his title shot for money now and later. No way N'Dam gets him more money than the WBO winner, if he gets that shot

Lemeuix is most likely going to have legal problems in the near future if GBP/GYM don't resolve their little beef of who Lemeuix is actually signed to, least that's what I'm hearing

[SugarRayCurtain]

guy is going to do the exact same thing as he did in the MW division
Beat AA who was bad to begin with and hog the WBO belt for years fighting guys outside the top 10

[Weebler I]

Saunders is an assumption because all they're talking about is big stadium fight against the winner for the WBO.

Also he's most likely in it more for the money than the belt since he gave up his title shot for money now and later. No way N'Dam gets him more money than the WBO winner, if he gets that shot

Lemeuix is most likely going to have legal problems in the near future if GBP/GYM don't resolve their little beef of who Lemeuix is actually signed to, least that's what I'm hearing

I'd say Frank Warren was behind that so I suppose you're right, it could happen again. I wouldn't be shocked to see him take the N'Dam fight though, he'd get a lot of stick if he turned down two title shots. How much more money would he really get fighting Quillin anyway? (if he were to win)

[ИATAS]

So Saunders vs Ndam likely, or possibly Lemieux. I'd rather it be Lemieux just because I think he'll win and a unification fight against Golovkin would be a fun fight. I don't see Saunders fighting GGG and if he did he wouldn't fair very well to say the least. At least Lemieux has power, potentially to hurt Golovkin. And if Ndam beat Saunders, not sure he'd fight Golovkin being that he turned down two prior purse bids, although to his credit he had expressed interest in fighting him recently.

*Like all divisions, I want unification. I'm trying to think of the best case scenarios of achieving this.

[Pigeons]

I hope Mora gets the title shot so Haymon controls two MW belts.

Maybe this will force Golovkin to find his balls and challenge Ward at 168.