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11/03/2006
Results from Universum's big show
Felix Sturm W12 Maselino Masoe... Middleweight contender Felix Sturm captured the WBA regular title at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany. Sturm decisioned Maselino Masoe, the reigning champion despite Masoe's nearly two years of inactivity. Sturm won by scores of 117-111 (twice) and 115-113. Although Jermain Taylor holds the WBA super championship and general recognition as world middleweight champion, Sturm can now claim to be a two-time world title holder, as he beat Hector Velazco in a bout sanctioned for the WBO title in 2003. Although he has never officially beaten an elite middleweight, almost everyone who saw Sturm's 2004 loss to Oscar De La Hoya thinks that the German was robbed. Perhaps Sturm will feel ready to leave Germany to face the Taylor-Winky Wright winner this fall.  source: Universum website