Felix Sturm: from the championship to the crime

German athletes have always been famous for their discipline, zeal and diligence. Thanks to this, many of them became champions. If we talk about boxers, the main thing is their biography, results. Felix Sturm is one of those fighters who, of course, deserve the closest attention from the public. About him and talk in this article.

Biographical information

Felix Sturm (real name - Adnan Chatich) was born in the German city of Leverkusen on January 31, 1979. Has a Bosnian origin. The height of the fighter is 181 centimeters, and the range of arms is 185 centimeters. To date, conducted 49 fights in the professional ring, in 40 of which he managed to win (18 wins by knockout).

Career in amateurs

The first serious fights of Felix Sturm on the amateur ring fell on the period 1995-96, when he was able to become the champion of Germany in the junior division. In 1998-99, the boxer again won the championship of his native country, but already in the new weight category - a welterweight. The only silver award he had in 1997.

Participated in the world championship in 1999. In the first fight he managed to beat Ukrainian Turcan Andrey with the score 8: 3, however already in the next round he could not counter anything against Kazakh Ermakhan Ibrimov.

In 2000, Felix was able to win the European championship, where in the first battle he won the representative of Hungary Carol Balzh.

In the same year 2000, Sturm became a participant in the Olympics. Participation in the main tournament of the world did not bring success to the German, because he was defeated at the hands of American Jermain Taylor.

Professional performances

The debut of the German in the profiling took place in early 2001. He started his performances in middleweight. Two years later, he was able to become a youth IBF World Champion. In the summer of 2003, Felix Sturm won the WBO Intercontinental World Title. And in September he managed to win a full WBO title in a fight with Argentinean Hector Javier Velasco. The victory was difficult and was awarded a separate judicial decision. Literally three months later, and the first defense of the belt in a duel with Ruben Varon, which was successful for the champion. However, in the summer of 2004, Sturm could not win in a fight with Oscar De La Hoya, and gave him the title of champion.

But this defeat did not stop the German, and he continued to train, because for him his biography was always important. Felix Sturm again enters the ring in the fall and wins in the fight with Robert Fraser the title of WBO intercontinental champion in the middle division. This title the German subsequently defended in fights with Bert Schenk and Jorge Sendra.

The next WBA champion belt Felix Sturm won in the spring of 2006, when he was able to defeat Marcelo Maso. However, already in the summer of that year, the German unexpectedly lost the belt in a duel with Javier Castillejo. In April 2007, a rematch was held between the fighters, in which Sturm had already won and regained the title. After this, a successful series of belt defenses in the number of seven fights followed, after which Felix took a break for 14 months.

Return to the ring, too, was successful: Giovanni Lawrence was defeated. This victory allowed Felix to become a super champion of the WBA.

On the unification duel Felix Sturm came out on the first September day of 2012. His rival was Daniel Gil. After a total of 12 rounds, the judges, who did not like the rational manner of the German fight, preferred the Australian with a score of 116-112.

This defeat led to the fact that the IBF decided to hold a battle between Soliman and Sturm for the right to become an obligatory challenger. In February 2013, this duel took place and ended with Sam's victory by a judicial decision. However, a little later in the blood of an Australian found a dope, and the defeat of Sturm was canceled.

The fights of Felix Sturm with the Russian Chudinov were champion. The only difference is that Dmitry won the decision in the first fight and Felix in the second one, which was held on February 20, 2016.

Elimination of sport

In September 2016, the German prosecutor's office announced that soon Sturm would be put on the wanted list due to a non-attendance to the opening of the "B" doping test, which he also initiated. Investigators know that at the moment Felix is outside Germany and lives on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.