Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/148294-world-boxing-association-rankings

Middleweight (up to 160 lbs)

CHAMPION: Felix Sturm, Germany 10. Renan St. Juste, Canada 11. Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam, Cameroon 12. Travis Simms, United States 13. Aaron Mitchell, United States 14. Koji Sato, Japan 15. Dmitri Pirog, Russia

1. Anthony Mundine, Australia
2. Sebastian Zbik, Germany
3. Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstan
4. Khoren Gevor, Armenia
5. Mariano Natalio Carrera, Argentina
6. Sebastian Sylvester, Germany
7. Mahir Oral, Germany
8. Avtandil Khurtsidze, Georgia
9. Danile Edouard, Haiti

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Sturm vs. Gevor - July 11th from Germany.

By Per Ake Persson

WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm takes on current EBU titleholder Khoren Gevor on July 11 at the Nuerburgring Formule I Arena. Both men are promoted by Universum. On paper the stylish Sturm is a big favorite but Gevor showed he´s an underestimated force when he lost to Arthur Abraham and in the win against Finn Amin Asikainen and I would say he has a good chance. In the co-headliner Sebastian Zbik and Domenico Spada fight for the WBC interim middleweight title.

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=19772

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Arthur Abraham beat Khoren Gevor before.

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

And, your point is???

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Nothing, just wondering why he's not up there.

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

This should be the right stats:

http://www.boxrec.com/ratings.php?sex=M&division=Middleweight&pageID=1

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Maybe because Abraham is sanctioned by the IBF??? And holds the IBF middleweight title. You think.

And, I suspect, regardless of sanctioning body - WBA, WBC, WBO or IBF, it should be more like:

1. Abraham
2. Pavlik
3. Sturm

in the Middleweight division.

I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of the Gevor-Sturm fight ends up fighting Pavlik in a bid to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO belts before a big payday fight with Abraham to unify the middleweight title once and for all.

Although at least one of the belts isn't even worthy of wearing.

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Maybe because Abraham is sanctioned by the IBF??? And holds the IBF middleweight title. You think.

And, I suspect, regardless of sanctioning body - WBA, WBC, WBO or IBF, it should be more like:

1. Abraham
2. Pavlik
3. Sturm
in the Middleweight division.

I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of the Gevor-Sturm fight ends up fighting Pavlik in a bid to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO belts before a big payday fight with Abraham to unify the middleweight title once and for all.

Although at least one of the belts isn't even worthy of wearing.

Bolded for truth.

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Its on in a couple of hours live from Germany. Gevor, a moderate underdog (+285), in his quest for a title against Felix Sturm.

http://www.saddoboxing.com/10177-sturm-zbik.html

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Re: Gevor #4 WBA Middleweight

Ehh...

HyeFighter Khoren Gevor
Gets ROBBED by Decision

In Germany this afternoon, HyeFighter Khoren Gevor OBLITERATED Felix Sturm, and due to completely incomprehensible scoring, lost the fight. Officially, Sturm won a unanimous decision, 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113. With the forces of the boxing universe conspiring against him, Gevor was able to get inside on Sturm at will, and just unload on his body in the early rounds. In the third, he even appeared to score a flash knockdown that the referee ruled as a slip. The stockier Gevor completely controlled on the inside, but within about 10 seconds of getting there, the ref would step in every time and push the fighters about 2 meters apart from each other. Was there holding? No. Was there headbutting? Heads were touching, but there wasn't anything that looked like a butt, and neither fighter got cut. So why was the referee doing this? I don't know - I guess he was inventing his own rules.
In the middle rounds, Gevor slowed down his workrate a bit, but he still appeared to be throwing about 80 punches a round. After about the 7th round, Gevor appeared to even control the action when they were on the outside. Despite being the longer fighter, Sturm just refused to use his jab to keep Gevor off of him, and Gevor was able to bounce in, land a few jabs, land a few body shots, and bounce back outside of Sturm's range. Rounds 8 and 9 were the only rounds I scored for Sturm, as Gevor really started to slow, and Sturm started to finally land more effective shots. That, however, was short lived, and Gevor came back out with a vengeance in rounds 10 and 11, resuming his high workrate and just pushing Sturm around the ring on the inside. The 12th was a bit of a toss-up, although, both fighters did look like they were still trying to win the fight.
Throughout the entire fight, Gevor probably threw twice as many punches as Sturm. He controlled the action for all but one round. He landed the harder shots in all but about three rounds. He blocked about 85% of what Sturm threw at him, and although Sturm probably blocked around the same percentage of punches, the sheer volume of Gevor's ooutput means that he landed many many more punches than Sturm. Gevor would come forward in a workmanlike manner, pounding away, one or two shots at a time. Maybe twice a round, Sturm would take a step back, land a flurry, and the extremely pro-Sturm crowd would go wild. Still, winning 10 seconds of each round doesn't mean that he won a majority of the rounds, especially when Gevor was never so much as stunned all fight.

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