Felix Sturm - Sebastian Sylvester this weekend !! (SPOILER ALERT!!!)

[mrodub]

thanks for the updates i have strum for a unanimous decision so keep em coming

[Mikkel_K]

Last round:

Sturm landing at will! Something like 12 jabs in a row! Sylvester stays up, but if this was for 15 he would not have survived.

People standing up, cheering for Sturm (no boos for him now!).

This was not that action-packed a fight, but Sturm put on a boxing clinic! Bring on Arthur Abraham!

[Mikkel_K]

Official decision:
118-110
118-110
119-109

[My card was 118-110 - and one of Sylvester's rounds could easily have gone to Sturm - so not much difference there]

Sturm retains the WBA-belt by UD.

I apologise for the very short round assesments and my complete and utter lack of mathematical skills while attempting to calculate the score during the fight. At least not that many people are following

[mrodub]

Thanks for that mate just won a few bob on that

[WelshDevilRob]

Great commentary Mikkel K - Thank you.

My accumulator is still on 3 fights won another 8 to go.

[C-Lo]

Round 11:

German commentators declare that if Sturm had been this good in Vegas, he would have beaten ODLH for sure!
Kudos for Sylvester for staying in the fight, having taken quite a few clean shots and just shaken them off.

9-2 Sturm before last round

He did, the announcer just said the wrong name...

[Mikkel_K]

Okay, fight's over and beer is drunk, but just to recap a bit (while German tv is anyway showing bundesliga highlights, leaving me waiting for the Dzindiruk-Julio fight, I btw already know the winner of):

I really liked Sturm in this one. His jab owned Sylvester throughout the fight. It would be great, if he would let himself go a bit more, but you cannot really blame a guy for being careful (it's not like he was running either). As for Sylvester he did his thing, but he really was just found out at this level - he is not a world class fighter. Sturm proved today, to me at least, that he is. But I was impressed with Sylvester not going down, and with never really looking in trouble despite numerous clean shots.

Furthermore I thought it was a good fight, but as I said earlier, it was very (Eastern) European. I didnt see any holding in the entire fight (!), but then again there was basically no infighting either. I guess Sturm leading with the jab may not be every casual fan's idea of great boxing, but it sure as hell was effective today.

[Mikkel_K]

It took more than 1 hour after the main bout ended before they showed the undercard

Wont do a rbr for Dzindiruk-Julio for obvious reasons (result being in this thread already), but first two rounds were very fast paced, and lesser fighters would have been stopped already. FWIW I had them winning one each, and at this point I'm sitting with the feeling that whatever the scorecards say, it wont be the full story.