The MW Division is in a sad state!

Like I said most people don´t know how to score a fight properly.

Yes, Sturm stood there often with his guard blocking most shots of Ghevor. I did not state Sturm landed more punches, he didn´t. But boxing is not scored on punches landing. Ghevor´s punches have less on them as Ottke´s had. No power at all. Sturm landed the harder punches and the clearer ones. He also showed better defence. Ghevor dictated the pace, right, but that´s it. Ineffective aggression is not something that should win you a fight.
Like I said before Ghevor won some rounds on sheer activity and because Sturm was too passive. But Sturm won the fight. Close but he won it.

Actually, Sturm said often he wants to come to America to fight. Ask Kohl why those fights did not come of. It´s his fault. Erdei, Sturm, Dzinziruk stated again and again that they want the big fights. On TV. Universum just ignored it and put them against easy wins in non-mandatory fights. It works against Universum now. They lost the TV contract for this politics.

What´s wrong fighting easy fights between tough ones? Sturm always fought a good oponent than a worse one. Pavlik fought one bum after another.

Personally, I don´t think neither resume is that bad during their reign. Perople just always want a spectacular opponent for every fight. But that´s bs. Never happened in the past, not even in the golden age, and won´t happen now.

Abraham´s promoter knew Universum would never agree to the Sturm-Abraham fight. Easy to talk big then. Pavlik would always have been at a style disadvantage against Abe. And that´s pretty obvious. Easy to talk big with that advantage on your side. Make no mistake while Sauerland takes more risk than Univserum, they are still savety first. All German promoters are. Sadly.

Again, what´s wrong fighting some tune-ups between hard fights. In the past fighters did this although albeit not in title fights but then those belts today are pretty much meaningless imo.

 

Looking at Pavliks fights; Martinez, Hopkins and the Taylor rematch were all dangerous opponents. OK he got his ass handed to him twice and was contractually obliged to fight the other but still. Lockett and Rubio were mandatories, neither should have been but you can't blame Pavlik for fighting them. Espino was poor choice of opponent, he was arranged at short notice but even so there was a bit of a stench of **** about the way the Williams fight fell through just before it.

Sturm fought 3 times against guys who should have been on the fringes of the top 100, not top 15 contenders. You can take the odd easy fight but Sturm (or Universum,) seemed to make a habit of fighting guys who really should not have been in the position to fight him except for crazy WBA politics, and they fought them when they didn't have to. Sturm has also been pretty active over the last few years so I don't see the need for as many 'tune-up' fights, comming only a few months after his other fights when there's no ring rust to shake off.

What I will say in Sturms defense though is that the main blame lies with the WBA for giving the likes of Pittman a ranking in the first place.

We'll probably just have to agree to disagree, but even though neither Sturm or Pavlik fought a consistently high calibre of opponent during their reign, I would say Pavlik generally looked for better opponents when he had the choice and that the bums he did fight weren't quite as bad as the ones Sturm fought (though that's maybe debateable).

Anyway, I'm not the great defender of Kelly Pavlik. As I said before, hopefully now Sturm is away from Universum he can get more good fights, maybe with some of the American based middleweights. He's what 31 now. Not that old but old enough that you'd think he'd want every fight to mean something now and to not **** around with easy defenses in between.

 

:hi: I you had Sturm ahead you are the one you are the one who deesn't know.

Before the fight I was already clear that Gevor would be cheated

Kohl had big plans with Sturm.

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