| Capital: | € 2.5 million |
| Age: | 41 |
| Born: | January 31, 1979 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Boxer / athlete |
| Last updated: | 2019 |
Short introduction
The boxer is known as Felix Sturm is actually the real name of Adnan Catic. As a boxer he played his fight for Germany, but he also had a Bosnian migration background. The heavyweight is a super middle class, it is the left wing and has become a world champion five times in various associations.
Leverkusener as high as 1.81 m, has struggled a total of 49 fights and recorded 40 wins. He recently appeared in negative media headers, including alleged doping and unpaid tax debt.
Early life
His parents came from Blagaj City in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is why Felix has double citizenship. As a child, he grew around Cologne, where he also studied at the city elementary school. He came into contact with a very early age, which allowed him to make his first amateur fight in his youth. During his amateur time, Felix has 134 wins compared to only 9 defeats. It was years 1995-1996 he was able to prove his talents as German junior champions at the national level. Only two years later, he became the German middle class champion twice in a row. During this time he continued to fight as a middle-class boxer, winning a gold medal in the European Championship, among others, and also took part in tournaments outside Germany.
The World Championship in Houston was followed in 1999, but this was the end of his second lap for him because he met the Olympic championship later in 2000 and lost to Ibraimow on points. Immediately after, in 2000, he moved to a professional and aspiring camp for a career as a professional.
Career
In January 2001 he made a professional debut in Munich and held his first professional fight against Antonio Ribeiro Portuguese. He won this fight on points and the winning line continued for 14 other fightes. From 2001 he could win a lot of fighting for himself, followed by several titles such as the WBO Intercontinental Championship. From now on Felix must also maintain various titles, which also managed to fight boxers like Spain Ruben Varon.
The title of the title defense continued and he also had to compete with the eight-time world champion Oscar de la Hoya from a lower weight class.
Career highlights
From now on, everything is fast and one highlight after attending his career. On June 5, 2004 it was time for Felix to be an absolute peak in his career so far. At MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, the fight both took place in front of millions of spectators. For De La Hoya, in a certain sense, only a jump, because de la Hoya actually aims to reunify a reunification of a profitable title against world champions and Superstar Bernard Hopkins who is in power. This holds the title of the world championship three associations (IBF, WBA and WBC), what De La Hoya wants to get. But to start this, De La Hoya needed a victory over Felix Sturm, who at that time was considered a great outsider in the fight.
However, the fight was not at all easy for De La Hoya, because Sturm had several hits in the early rounds. In the next round, Sturm was able to vary his style even more and was sure of victory at the end of the battle in the last round.
Despite this superiority, Sturm lost his WBO title to De La Hoya on points. The level of awareness rose very after this fight in a storm.
In further journey in his career, he won the WBA world title and even won the Super WBA champion in 2010. Felix also became the IBF world champion and had many fights until 2016. But that year in October, he resigned his super WBA. The middle class title and officially stated this as an injury to the elbow.
Amazing facts
He deliberately chose his name Felix Sturm to be known to the wider audience in Germany. In 2007 he trained Stefan Raab because of his rematch against Regina Halmich.
He has been married to his long girlfriend since 2007, they have two shared children, and Felix has lived with his family in Bosnia since August 2016.
This step may also have something to do with his legal dispute in Germany.
Because since 2016 Felix Sturm has repeatedly appeared in the media through a negative main headline.
First of all there was a suspicion of abuse of doping and in April 2019 he was arrested at the fitness exhibition week in Cologne for alleged tax evasion. Initially, he was offered a deposit of one million euros, but the court revised this because the risk of aviation was quite large. Therefore, he was fined several times and was sentenced to several months in prison.
