Andreas Prox

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Andreas Prox boxer
Data
Birth Name {{{realname}}}
Weight class medium weight
nationality German
birthday 7th December 1959
place of birth Hamburg , Germany
Date of death 2012
Combat Statistics
Struggles 18th
Victories 11
Knockout victories 5
Defeats 5
draw 2

Andreas Prox (born December 7, 1959 in Hamburg , † 2012 ) was a German boxer . As a professional boxer, he was German middleweight champion .

Life

Prox was trained at the Hamburg boxing club BC Sportmann, later he moved to another club in the Hanseatic city, the BSV 19. As an amateur, he was twice German runner-up in the light middleweight division. Prox worked professionally as a concrete worker. He played 119 amateur fights.

The man from Hamburg won his first fight as a professional boxer in December 1982 in Cologne against Jürgen Broszeit from Neunkirchen and received a salary of 1,500 D-Marks. In July 1983 Prox suffered his first defeat when he lost to Rüdiger Bitterling in his third appearance as a professional boxer due to a technical knockout in the fifth round. At the end of January 1987 he won the German middleweight championship in Bielefeld : In his 13th professional fight, Prox defeated Mike Wissenbach  from Berlin on points. Prox defended his title against Harald Schulte , in mid-August 1987 he faced Wissenbach again. The fight in the Hamburg sports hall Wandsbek ended without a decision. After a low blow from Prox, Wissenbach went down in the third round, and the members of the Association of German Professional Boxers under the leadership of then chairman Klaus-Peter Kohl decided not to rate the fight. At the end of October 1987 there was another fight between Prox and Wissenbach, which ended in a draw in Hof , which meant that the first German champion remained.

In June 1988 he was offered the opportunity to box for the European Championship, but Prox lost the fight in Lyon, France against the local Christophe Tiozzo . His last fight was in September 1989, when he fought against Miodrag Perunovic for the IBF intercontinental title ,  but lost on points in Munich .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.boxen-hamburg.de/news.htm
  2. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1982/pdf/19821206.pdf/ASV_HAB_19821206_HA_016.pdf
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1983/pdf/19830711.pdf/ASV_HAB_19830711_HA_010.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1987/pdf/19870202.pdf/ASV_HAB_19870202_HA_013.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1987/pdf/19870817.pdf/ASV_HAB_19870817_HA_011.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1987/pdf/19871102.pdf/ASV_HAB_19871102_HA_016.pdf
  7. ↑ BoxRec: Andreas Prox. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1989/pdf/19890904.pdf/ASV_HAB_19890904_HA_015.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Prox, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2012