Felix Sturm prepared to fight Khoren Gevor
Sports fans can expect a special weekend when "Boxing meets Formula 1" at the famous Nürburgring Speedway on July 11. It will be "The Night of the Middleweights" the evening before the German Grand Prix in the new ring arena. Two middleweight world championships will be featured in this boxing highlight of 2009 and the legendary race track Nürburgring. It will be the first time that these two sports will cooperate within an event.
Headlining the event will be WBA world champion Felix Sturm (32-2-1, 14 KOs). After his great wins in the past years against his mandatory challengers Randy Griffin and Sebastian Sylvester, the Universum boxer Felix Sturm is certainly one of the best fighters within the middleweight division at the moment. Sturm is coming off a 7th round stoppage over Japanese contender Koji Sato last month on April 25th in Krefeld. Just 77 days after his previous fight he will return to the ring against his stablemate of Universum Box-Promotion Khoren Gevor.
The reigning European champion Khoren Gevor (30-3, 16 KOs) is currently rated WBA # 2 with good positioning at the IBF and WBO. It has been announced that the WBA/WBO #2 rated Gevor will be recognized as the WBA's mandatory challenger.
The fighters met on Monday during a press conference in the Tower Lounge over the Grand Prix paddock. Felix Sturm stated: "This is a special place where a special fight will take place. I am prepared. Khoren is not the WBA mandatory challenger for nothing. We know that very well. But I have a strong team behind me that has prepared me well. I've boxed now three times with the mandatory challenger of my association within a year. We are very concentrated and focused for Saturday."
This fight will be decided by the psyche. Whoever has the better one will win. We are both about the same strength and have similar knockout rates. In my last fight in Finland, I silenced an arena with 9000 spectators. On Saturday things will hopefully again be very quiet," Khoren Gevor said.
In his most spectacular fight he was knocked out by Arthur Abraham in the 11th round in August 2007 in a fight for the IBF title. However, Gevor recently defeated Amin Asikainen in his hometown of Helsinki by a 7th round TKO in November 2008 to claim the European middleweight belt, boxing.de reports.
Headlining the event will be WBA world champion Felix Sturm (32-2-1, 14 KOs). After his great wins in the past years against his mandatory challengers Randy Griffin and Sebastian Sylvester, the Universum boxer Felix Sturm is certainly one of the best fighters within the middleweight division at the moment. Sturm is coming off a 7th round stoppage over Japanese contender Koji Sato last month on April 25th in Krefeld. Just 77 days after his previous fight he will return to the ring against his stablemate of Universum Box-Promotion Khoren Gevor.
The reigning European champion Khoren Gevor (30-3, 16 KOs) is currently rated WBA # 2 with good positioning at the IBF and WBO. It has been announced that the WBA/WBO #2 rated Gevor will be recognized as the WBA's mandatory challenger.
The fighters met on Monday during a press conference in the Tower Lounge over the Grand Prix paddock. Felix Sturm stated: "This is a special place where a special fight will take place. I am prepared. Khoren is not the WBA mandatory challenger for nothing. We know that very well. But I have a strong team behind me that has prepared me well. I've boxed now three times with the mandatory challenger of my association within a year. We are very concentrated and focused for Saturday."
This fight will be decided by the psyche. Whoever has the better one will win. We are both about the same strength and have similar knockout rates. In my last fight in Finland, I silenced an arena with 9000 spectators. On Saturday things will hopefully again be very quiet," Khoren Gevor said.
In his most spectacular fight he was knocked out by Arthur Abraham in the 11th round in August 2007 in a fight for the IBF title. However, Gevor recently defeated Amin Asikainen in his hometown of Helsinki by a 7th round TKO in November 2008 to claim the European middleweight belt, boxing.de reports.
