Sturm to fight Lorenzo on September 4th – News
July 27th, 2010
By Jim Dower: World Boxing Association middleweight champion Felix Sturm (33-2-1, 14 KO’s) will now be facing middleweight contender Giovanni Lorenzo (29-2, 21 KO’s) instead of Ricardo Mayorga on September 4th at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. In some ways, this is a better opponent than Mayorga, because at least the 29-year-old Lorenzo is ranked at number #4 by the IBF. Oddly enough, Lorenzo isn’t ranked in the top 15 by the WBA, which makes me wonder why he was selected for Sturm. Perhaps a much better choice for Sturm would be number #2 ranked WBA middleweight contenders Gennady Golovkin or #3 ranked contenders Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam.
Sturm hasn’t fought in over a year since beating Khoren Gevor last year in July. Sturm has been busy in dealing with promotional issues but now is finally clear of that problem and is ready to fight again.
Lorenzo has an impressive record, to be sure. However, most of his wins have come against obscure B level fighters. Of the two times where Lorenzo stepped it up and fought an A level fighter, he was beaten by both Sebastian Sylvester and Raul Marquez. Due to his lack of experience against top level opposition, you really don’t know what to expect of Lorenzo for this fight. It’s not a good sign that Lorenzo was beaten by Sylvester, a fighter that Sturm easily beat by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision two years ago. Just by that fight alone, it’s probably fair to say that Sturm is going to easily beat Lorenzo on September 4th by a 12 round decision.
Sturm, 31, needs to start going after bigger names in the middleweight division. His career has been unremarkable to the extreme. Despite holding down then WBA middleweight title off and on for the past four years, Sturm has nothing to show for it in terms of big money fights. Sturm considered by many boxing fans to be a paper champion, and that’s because he hasn’t anyone yet. Most of his opponents have been from Europe. Sturm could really help himself if he was to go after fights with Kelly Pavlik, Daniel Jacobs, Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto. Those are the fights that Sturm needs to go after so that he can make more of a name for himself and get better paydays.
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Lorenzo has power! which Sturm does not. I saw Lorenzo clock some fringe contender one night at the Prudential Arena and put him out of commission in the first round. Lorenzo will be the next WBA champion, Sturm is more of a politician.
Amir Khan is a hype.
Do u really think you can compare his power with a real middleweight fighter?
No, I think Daniel Jacobs, Hassan N´dam N´jikam and Gennadi Golowkin and of course Sergio Martinez are the men to beat.
Forget about Pavlik, Sturm, Zbik despite their “Champion” status.
Regarding the Sturm vs. Lorenzo bout i bet it will be a close fight and Sturm will get the decision, maybe about 115-113 or 116-112…
I´m from Germany and I know what happens.
Amir Khan will wipe the floor with all fighters and go down with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Malik Abdul Aziz and Naseem Hamed as one of the all time greats…
Khan would destroy Cotto, Pacquiao, Mayweather, Maidana, Williams, Pavlik, Mosley etc., so don’t waste your time with these joke fighters… all cherry pickers… Khan will fight anyone any time… you’ve heard him… he’s called out the best… he’s called them all out… he should be P4P champ… who else has called all of them out… glass chin? How can he have a glass chin when he’s calling all those guys out… he’ll be champ all the way up to heavyweight… you’ve heard the man… can’t wait to see him call out another top name…
Sturm looks old …
Lorenzo blew a chance to fight Abraham when he was out slicked by Marquez. Maybe it was just as well, but he has a chance against Sturm if he stays busy
of course golovkin would be a better choice! but sturm achieved an agreement with wba to become “superchampion” and not having to fight a no.1 contender for 18 months! so golovkin fights for the “interim title” quite ridiculous, but sturm is avoiding him!
golovkin isn’t well known but his fighting style is very effective and as an amateur he won against andre dirrell and lucian bute!
Strum is happy that Abraham gave up on him and moved up in weight…
Lorenzo is a good fighter when he throws enough punches. Sometimes he gets to defensive and gives away the round he was winning or had a chance of winning if he threw more punches. If Lorenzo throws enough punches he will win if not he will lose.