Sturm Vs Geale: Latest News, Articles & Breaking Stories

Shaw: Geale-Sturm Rematch Probably Next, Not Golovkin

•12 years ago

ATLANTIC CITY — Promoter Gary Shaw hopes to eventually match Daniel Geale against Gennady Golovkin and/or Sergio Martinez, but he doesn’t expect either of those high-profile fights to be next for Geale if the IBF middleweight champion overcomes Darren Barker on Saturday night at Revel. If Geale beats Barker (25-1, 16 KOs) in their HBO “Boxing After Dark” main event, Shaw anticipates that the IBF will force a mandatory match between Australia’s Geale (29-1, 15 KOs) and Germany’s Felix Sturm (38-3-2, 17 KOs, 1 NC), whom Geale defeated by split decision Sept. 1 in Oberhausen, Germany. Sturm is ranked No. 2 in the IBF’s middleweight ratings. Australia’s Sam Soliman (42-11, 17 KOs, 1 NC), who is ranked No. 1 by the IBF, scored a unanimous decision victory over Sturm on Feb. 1 in Dusseldorf, Germany, but the result was changed to a no-contest because Soliman tested positive for an illegal stimulant.

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Felix Sturm Confident He Will Beat Geale, Avenge Defeat

BoxingScene Staff

•12 years ago

Felix Sturm has vowed to beat Daniel Geale by the end of the year to regain the WBA middleweight title. The German, 34 years old, looked sharp in beating Montenegro's Predrag Radosevic in Dortmund on Saturday night. Now he wants revenge again Geale. The Australian took Sturm's WBA title when he beat him on a split decision in September last year. He has to defend the title against Britain's Darren Barker in New Jersey in August. But Sturm wants another shot at the

Shaw: Sturm Refused a Rematch Clause Against Geale

Rick Reeno

•13 years ago

Gary Shaw, the American promoter for IBF/WBA middleweight champion Daniel Geale (28-1, 15KOs), admits he was shocked when German superstar Felix Sturm (37-3-2, 16KOs) refused to have a rematch clause in their fight contract. On Saturday night at the Koenig Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Geale ended the long reign of Sturm with a twelve round split decision. It was the first loss for Sturm since 2006.

Photos: Geale Ends The Long Title Reign of Felix Sturm

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•13 years ago

IBF middleweight champion Daniel Geale of Australia defeated Felix Sturm on a split decision to take the German's WBA title in their unification bout on Saturday night in Germany. Judges Stanley Christodoulou and Dave Parris both scored the bout 116-112 in favor of Geale, while Eugene Grant gave it 116-112 to Sturm. Geale also won his IBF belt on a split decision in Germany, and he was making his third defense of the title he won by beating Sebastian Sylvester in Neubrandenburg last May. Geale improves his record to 28-1 with 15 KOs. Sturm, a German of Bosnian descent, drops to 37-3-2 with 16 KOs after the 33-year-old's first defeat since 2006.

Daniel Geale Shocks Felix Sturm, Unifies IBF/WBA Belts

Alexey Sukachev

•13 years ago

Koenig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Nadia Raoui (15-1-1, 3KOs) won a ten round unanimous decision over Samson Tor Buamas (26-3, 11KOs) to retain the WIBA women's International flyweight championship.

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Golovkin-Proksa/Sturm-Geale: Middleweight Report Card

Cliff Rold

•13 years ago

What will the Middleweight division look like a year from now? What will it look like by Sunday? Both questions leave intriguing answers possible as 160 lbs. takes center stage on two continents. With a unification match in Germany, a stellar clash between emerging faces in the States, and a hotly anticipated clash in two weeks (Sergio Martinez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.), Middleweight is coming together. It’s been coming for a while. Middleweight

Shaw Expects Geale To Shock The Odds, Unseat Sturm

Adrian Warren

•13 years ago

Internationally recognized boxing powerbroker Gary Shaw says Australia's Daniel Geale heads into his middleweight boxing unification bout with Germany's Felix Sturm as one of the world's most under-rated fighters. IBF champion Geale and WBA Super title holder Sturm will put their respective belts on the line in Oberhausen, Germany on Saturday. Geale has a relatively low global profile because he has yet to have a professional bout in the United States, the epicentre of professional boxing.

Geale Plans To Bring The Fight To Sturm in Every Round

Adrian Warren

•13 years ago

Daniel Geale has declared his intention to drag German superstar Felix Sturm out of his comfort zone as he stands on the threshold of making Australian boxing history. On Saturday at Oberhausen in Germany, IBF middleweight champion Geale will endeavour to become the first Australian-born boxer to unify two major globally-recognised titles in a division.

Golovkin-Proksa, Sturm-Geale is an Interesting Double

Dereck Bilton

•13 years ago

Our expert Derek Bilton is keen on the chances this weekend of Gennady Golovkin and Felix Sturm. 'Hunger knows no friend but its feeder'. So mused the old comic playwright of ancient Greece Aristophanes. And if there is a hungrier fighter in world boxing right now Gennady Golovkin, then I have yet to stumble upon him. This weekend WBA world middleweight champion Golovkin makes his US debut against European champion Grzegorz Proksa in New York. It's an intriguing fight and should tell us plenty about how good Golovkin, a native of Kazakhstan now living and fighting out of Germany, really is.

Photos: Felix Sturm, Daniel Geale Make Weight For Battle

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•13 years ago

IBF middleweight champion Daniel Geale (L) of Australia, and WBA champion Felix Sturm of Germany (R), poses during their weigh-in at the VW car dealership in Duisburg, Germany. The IBF and WBA World Championship middleweight fight will be held at Arena Oberhausen on Saturday night in Oberhausen, Germany. Both fighters weighed in at 72 kilograms [158.7-pounds].