Not the worst fight, clean action, ref not involved. Sturm seemed to do better in round 3. Marching Sato down, finding a regular home for the jab. Not really damaging the Jap yet.
http://www.boxingnews24.com/2009/03/sturm-vs-sato-on-april-25th-2/ 'As an amateur, Sato had a record of 133-3, 101 KOs. That’s an incredible amount of knockouts, and I can’t recollect a fighter right off hand that has a similar record.' :yep Sato KO4 Pavlik. You heard it here first.
LOL at this dude Sato. ****ing sloppy as ****. The pattern of the fight continues in round 4. Sturm marching him down, keeping his hands up. Sato walks backwards, leaning back throwing these arm punches He literally leans back with his head in the air and throws his arms about, its hilarity in there fellas. Sturm is not punishing him yet, only throwing jabs. If he throws the straight right this guy is wide open for it. 3-1 Sturm
Hahaha. :rofl The good thing for Sato is that he’s able to throw incredibly powerful shots at a close distance and seems to do well when he’s letting both hands go in wild exchanges.
Round 5 the same, Sturm getting progressively more dominant. Landed a few straight rights and an uppercut. Sato is becoming a Pizza Face, as Wlad hopes Haye will be, from Felix's jabs. 4-1 Sturm
Pattern firmly estbalished now, Sturm in cruise control. Sato seems to have run out of gas, and ideas. Taking his digs well though, to be fair. Looks a little ragged, and his face busted up. 5-1 Sturm
It's all over. Sturm started to really sit down on his shots in that round. Buzzed him with a left hook to the top/side of the head. He was wobbly legged in the corner getting beaten up. Unsure if the towell came in or the ref jumped in. Sato is slanty eyed more than usual from swelling.
If he does it will be like when they opened the ark thing in Indiana Jones. He is basically saving Germany
Confirmed it was the towell. It was in the Jap's corner, his trainer waved the towell and the ref saw it. Sato was not especially hurt, but his hands were down, he was just about to take more shots, swelled, no hope. Good cornerwork.