The former middleweight world champion Felix Sturm won at light heavyweight, when stopping Benjamin Blindert in three rounds at Ratiopharm Arena in Neu-Ulm, Germany, on Saturday evening.
Sturm, who lost his IBF middleweight title to Sam Soliman in 2014, is 46 years old. His record improved to 45-6-3 (20 KOs). The 14-2-2 (10 KOs) Blindert – like Sturm, from Germany – is 38. Their contest was the main event of a promotion overseen by Agon Sports and Sturm Box-Promotion.
Another former IBF middleweight champion, Vincenzo Gualtieri, was scored a 116-113, 116-113 and 115-114 victor over his fellow German Alexander Pavlov. Gualtieri, 24-1-1 (8 KOs), and Pavlov, 22-5 (16 KOs) were fighting at middleweight.
At Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena in Malaga, Spain, the Spaniard Samuel Molina, 32-3 (13 KOs), defended his European welterweight title against Sandy Messaoud, 20-8 (1 KO), of France via scores of 116-112, 116-112 and 115-113.
He next defends his title against his mandatory challenger Anas Messaoudi, 16-0 (10), of Belgium.
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