Well, moot now, but the 1st was extremely close. You had Sturm landing higher quality clean head shots and you had Barker landing a much higher quantity of sloppy touches on the body. If you say there is no way to see it for Barker you're basically admitting you place no value on body work in your scoring... (or you were swayed by the commentary, which according to some of the comments on here was calling it a dominant start for Sturm or maybe the crowd's reactions...I myself watched this entirely on mute :conf)
Barker needs to fight Murray/Lee or Macklin and if he comes through that he could come again. But Hearn was an idiot by accepting this fight in Germany, Barker couldn't handle the occasion.
Is barker gonna go for a rematch? Well he might as well but that was a bad bad performance from barker WTF was he doing? Was he Bute'd by the atmosphere?