Bernd August

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Bernd August boxer
Data
Birth Name Bernd August
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German German
birthday February 22, 1952
place of birth Berlin
Date of death March 1, 1988
Place of death Australia
style Legal display
size 199 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles 39
Victories 28
Knockout victories 19th
Defeats 9
draw 2

Bernd August (born February 22, 1952 in Berlin , Germany ; † March 1, 1988 in Australia ) was a German heavyweight professional boxer .

career

Bernd August only had a relatively short amateur career, his greatest successes being winning the German championship in the junior heavyweight division in 1970 and second place at the European junior championships in 1972 in Bucharest . Both victories he won more than high school student of Bertha von Suttner - High School (now European School Bertha von Suttner ) in Berlin-Reinickendorf . At the age of 21 he switched to the pros and made his debut in his hometown of Berlin on March 2, 1973 against Herbert Ficks, whom he knocked out in the first round. In the Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle he defeated the German heavyweight champion Conny Velensek on May 16, 1974 over twelve rounds on points and became German champion for the first time.

In April 1976 Bernd August, who was the protégé of manager Willy Zeller and was coached by Werner Papke , boxed against Richard Dunn in the London Royal Albert Hall for the vacant European heavyweight title and lost through technical knockout in the third round. In 1977 he lost the German championship title to Kurt Luedecke , but in the rematch in 1978 he was able to defeat Luedecke prematurely. On March 13, 1981, he went to South Africa against Kallie Knoetze and lost by technical knockout in the second round.

In 1982 August defended his title against the new hope Reiner Hartmann . Hartmann, who entered the ring as a professional for the first time in Germany, had to admit defeat prematurely in the eighth round. On November 5, 1983 Bernd August faced Hartmann again and lost by knockout in round six. After this defeat, he hung up his boxing gloves and retired from boxing.

successes

  • German junior heavyweight champion 1970
  • Junior Vice European Heavyweight Champion 1972
  • German heavyweight champion 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982

After boxing

Bernd August died in a traffic accident shortly after his 36th birthday on March 1, 1988 while visiting his parents in Australia because a kangaroo jumped in front of his motorcycle. August was an avid motorcyclist; As a 17-year-old high school student, he had received a driver's license from the Berlin police on the basis of a special permit. He was one of the favorites of the Berlin press, who liked to refer to him as "August the Strong" or "August the Great".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1976/pdf/19760807.pdf/ASV_HAB_19760807_HA_009.pdf
  2. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1976/pdf/19761206.pdf/ASV_HAB_19761206_HA_016.pdf
personal data
SURNAME August, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beanpole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer (heavyweight)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1988
Place of death Australia