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

[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.