Felix Sturm Boxing News

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s) faces #3 ranked World Boxing Association challenger Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KO’s) on December 2nd at the SAP=Arena in Mannheim, Germany.

MARTIN MURRAY will have the Army fighting his corner when he challenges World Boxing Association (WBA) super world middleweight champion Felix Sturm in December. The British, Commonwealth and WBA inter-continental champion meets the German idol in Mannheim on Friday December 2.

By Scott Gilfoid: It really pains me to say this but I think Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KO’s) won’t do any better against WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s) than Matthew Macklin did last June. Sturm took Macklin’s early onslaught in the first five rounds and then turned up the heat [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s) faces his second consecutive British opponent on December 2nd when he defends his World Boxing Association title against the unbeaten but terribly inexperienced number #3 ranked WBA contender Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KO’s) at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany.

MARTIN MURRAY will challenge World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight champion Felix Sturm later this year. St Helens’ British, Commonwealth and WBA intercontinental champion meets the German superstar at the SAP Arena, Mannheim on Friday 2nd December.

By Scott Gilfoid: Middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-3, 19 KO’s) is eying a March 2012 against former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) after Macklin received a low rematch offer from World Boxing Association (WBA) Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm. Supposedly Sturm asked for options on Macklin’s future fights, as much as [...]

Matthew Macklin emerged on the wrong side of a highly controversial split decision when he challenged for Felix Sturm’s World Boxing Association (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 [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KO’s) plans on returning to the middleweight division in November after a disastrous showing in the Super Six tournament recently at super middleweight.

By Scott Gilfoid: Middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-3, 19 KO’s) is blowing his chance for a rematch against World Boxing Association (WBA) Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s) by reportedly missing two contract deadlines during the recent negotiations with Sturm’s management according to fightnews.

New York, NY – July 25, 2011 – MSG Network announced today that it will re-telecast the contentious boxing match between Felix Sturm and Matthew Macklin as part of its “Boxing Wednesdays” weekly summer programming schedule. The fight, which originally aired on EPIX, will debut on MSG Network on Wednesday, July 27 at 9:00 p.m.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s) said in a press release that he’s leaving November 25th or 26th open for a rematch with Macklin. The fighters fought to a 12 round split decision on June 25th with Sturm winning the fight on two of the judges’ scorecards by [...]

By Simon Hirst: Some very good boxing was on offer last night to warm the tastebuds of next week’s fight of the year. Three interesting matches with different expectations for all of them. Brook’s test against N’dou was to see how good Brook was. Macklin had his first world title shot to see if he [...]

By Ben James: Now that the dust has settled after last nights war between WBA Super World Middleweight title fight between champion Felix Sturm and challenger Matthew Macklin, it is clear that Felix Sturm looked past Macklin and did not seem to take the hungry Brit seriously.

By Peter Wells: Well first of all I’d like to start on a bright note, as Matthew Macklin and Felix Sturm gave us a great 12 rounds of boxing which was truly an honour to watch. It was a champions performance from Macklin and when the final bell went it looked certain that he’d done [...]

By Dallan O’ Donnell: In the worst display of judging I have ever seen, Mathew Macklin has been robbed of a certain world title by controversial and plain awful judging. One judge gave the bout rightfully to Macklin in an extremely close contest scoring it 115-113.

By Peter Wells: For some fighters they were born into the boxing world with 9 lives. Meaning if they lost their first world title shot it wouldn’t matter because the next year they’d get a second shot. This can sometimes be to do with age as they are still young enough to have another couple [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The UK’s Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has a pretty much impossible task of facing WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. I wish I could give the 29-year-old Macklin a real chance at winning this fight but I can’t. [...]

Three-time middleweight champion FELIX STURM (35-2-1, 15 KOs), of Germany, makes his 10th defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title against top-rated contender MATTHEW “Mack the Knife” MACKLIN (28-2, 19 KOs), of the UK, This Saturday! June 25. It will be televised Live to the U.S., from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, [...]

Matthew Macklin’s trainer Joe Gallagher wants his charge to go from double M to triple M over the remainder of this week as Saturday nights World title showdown with Felix Sturm in Germany’s draws ever closer. Gallagher want’s Macklin to adopt Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s mantra of “Mean, Moody, Magnificent” as he bids to upset long [...]

By Jim Dower: 29-year-old challenger Matthew Macklin (29-2, 19 KO’s) will be fighting for a world title for the first time this Saturday night against WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Macklin has been a pro for 10 years and it’s nice to see him [...]

By Sean McDaniel 29-year-old Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) is being given a great opportunity in his title match against WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) on June 25th at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. Macklin is roughly the same age as Sturm, but his experience is much less than [...]

By Eric Thomas: Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has reportedly been looking very good in training camp for his June 25th fight against WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) for their title clash at the Lanxess- Arena in Cologne, Germany. If there was ever a time for the 29-year-old Macklin to [...]

NEW YORK (June 1, 2011) – Live world championship boxing returns to EPIX with the World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title fight between defending champion FELIX STURM and top-rated contender MATTHEW “Mack the Knife” MACKLIN, televised live to the U.S. from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, June 25, exclusively on EPIX the multiplatform [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former British and EBU middleweight champion Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) appears to have bitten off a little more than he can chew in WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s), who the 29-year-old Macklin win be facing on June 25th at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Matthew Macklin raised eyebrows amongst the German media yesterday when he came face to face with Felix Sturm at their press conference in Cologne ahead of their World title fight in the city on June 25th. Two time European Middleweight Champ Macklin made a big impression by addressing the assembled media in perfect German but [...]

By William Mackay: Middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) is taking a big step up in competition on June 25th in his title challenge of WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. Macklin, 28, has been facing European fodder for most of his fights during [...]

Macklin determined to end Sturm’s World title reign After a month of misery for Irish fighters in World title bouts Matthew Macklin believes he can deliver the goods for the Fighting Irish when he travels to Germany in June in a bid to end Felix Sturm’s reign as World Boxing Association (WBA) World Middleweight Champion.

By Sean McDaniel: The title fight between WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) and challenger Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has been moved to June 25th in order to avoid competing with the mega fight between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA champion David Haye on July 2nd. It wouldn’t [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) defends his World Boxing Association for the 10th time on July 2nd against middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Compared to some of the 32-year-old Sturm’s opponents that he’s picked out for his title defenses, [...]

By Eric Thomas: Top middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has finally gotten the world title shot that he’s been so long craving. The 28-year-old Macklin will be facing Super World WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) on June 25th according to fightnews.