Boxing: Geale out to get Sturm’s dream title

The 31-year-old Geale returns to Germany to win the belt he has defended twice.

BERLIN: World champion Felix Sturm goes into today’s middleweight unification bout dreaming of adding the IBF title to his WBA crown, but Australia’s Daniel Geale is out to wreck his plans. Geale puts his IBF middleweight title on the line against 33-year-old Sturm, the WBA super world middleweight champion, when they meet in Oberhausen. The 31-year-old Geale returns to Germany having defeated Sebastian Sylvester in May 2011 to win the belt he has defended twice. The winner of today’s bout will walk away with both belts and Sturm, who has held the WBA title since 2007, says he has been dreaming of this chance. “I will do my best to impose my tactics on him and make him pay for his mistakes,” said Geale. “He is a great fighter but I’m quite sure that I’ll win tonight.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2012.