{"id":15994,"date":"2011-09-19T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:37:45","slug":"felix-sturm-martin-murray-set-for-december-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15994","title":{"rendered":"Felix Sturm &#8211; Martin  Murray Set for December 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15994\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15994 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11941\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Strum header (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Strum-header-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>WBA #3 middleweight Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KOs) will challenge WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm at the SAP Arena, Mannheim on December 2. Murray will be bidding to become the first Hatton Promotions fighter to win a world championship crown.<\/p>\n<p>The undefeated 28-year-old said: \u201cI am absolutely buzzing and have so much motivation to go over there and beat Sturm. I first knew about the fight in early September, but we couldn\u2019t say anything until the contract was signed. I have started an 11 week training camp at Oliver Harrison\u2019s gym and come fight night I will be in the shape of my life. I have been ready for this chance for about nine months, but I seemed to slip under the radar because everybody talks about Matthew Macklin and Darren Barker as the main middleweights in Britain.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sturm was a controversial points winner over Macklin in June, but Murray insists he has every confidence in the officials.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI watched Sturm\u2019s defence against Macklin and made it a draw. When it is that close the champion on home soil usually gets the decision and there could be no real complaints. The WBA are a fantastic organisation and been very good to me so I will not be worrying about the scoring. Anyway, I am better fighter than Macklin and I will go one better than him in December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray last fought in June, when he forced Nick Blackwell to quit on his stool after five rounds<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBA #3 middleweight Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KOs) will challenge WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm at the SAP Arena, Mannheim on December 2. Murray will be bidding to become the first Hatton Promotions fighter to win a world championship crown. The undefeated 28-year-old said: \u201cI am absolutely buzzing and have so much motivation to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,1741,5480],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-felix-strum","tag-martin-murray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}