According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, WBA Middleweight champion will take on Marco Antonio Rubio on September 4th in Cologne, Germany.
“We have negotiated with different fighters from overseas, but for some reason most of them asked for crazy money,” Sturm said. “I don’t know what they’re thinking. Here in Germany I got calls from fighters with decent records who wanted to fight me for free — just for the shot at the title.”
“I feel great at the moment,” he said. “I chose to take a break to spend some time with my wife and my newborn son. It was good not to think about boxing all the time and not to count the calories on every meal. Now I am all fired up to get back into the ring. I cannot wait for my comeback. I am even looking forward to the hard weeks of preparation and training camp, and I will prove that I got no ring rust whatsoever.”
