News - Matthew Macklin

The challenger got off to a great start, pushing Sturm back with an enormous offensive workrate in the first three rounds. The champion, however, picked up the pace in the fourth and slowly gained control of the action with his quick and accurate combinations. Macklin never backed up, though, thus making it a toe-to-toe battle with him being the agressor while Sturm landed the cleaner punches read more ...

WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm and challenger Matthew Macklin both made weight at today’s official weigh-in for their world title showdown tomorrow night at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. Sturm easily made the 160 pound limit, tipping the scale at 158lbs/72.1kg. Macklin weighed in at 159lbs/72.4kg. Both fighters looked to be in tremendous physical shape and ready to go read more ...

WBA middleweight kingpin Felix Sturm and former European champion Matthew Macklin came face-to-face for the first time since announcing their world title clash on Saturday today at the final press conference at the luxury Wasserturm hotel in Cologne, Germany. The championship bout will draw an 18.000 plus crowd at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne read more ...

WBA interim middleweight champ Hassan N´Dam has received a letter from the WBA where he is instructed to take on WBA regular ruler Gennady Golovkin next. However, Golovkin is still defend his portion of the title June 17 in Panama City against Kassim Ouma read more ...

WBA "regular" middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (20-0, 17KOs) will defend the title on either June 2 or June 4 in Panama against Kassim Ouma (27-7-1, 17KOs) on a show staged by promoter Rogelio Espino. Contracts were signed today reports matchmaker Mario Pokowietz read more ...

Sapa-AFP is reporting that Felix Sturm (35-2, 15KOs) has set down his next defense of the WBA middleweight title. Sturm will face British boxer Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19KOs) in Cologne on July 2 read more ...

In a clash for the vacant WBO interim light heavyweight championship, unbeaten Nathan Cleverly (21-0, 10 KOs) won a lackluster twelve round unanimous decison over late sub Nadjib Mohammedi (23-2, 12 KOs) on Saturday night at the Liverpool Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. Cleverly pressed the action early. Mohammadi picked up the pace in rounds six and seven. Cleverly was deducted a point in round seven for holding read more ...

Ricky Hatton is very busy nowadays thinking as a promoter rather than a boxer and Ricky is thoroughly taken up with his new endeavor. “I’ve had my share of titles in the ring, but now I want to start producing world champions as a promoter,” says Ricky. One such young man that Hatton sees as a promising addition to his new promotional company is British middleweight champion Matthew Macklin (24-2, 17 KOs), a former sparring partner read more ...