Andreas Sidon

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Andreas Sidon boxer
Data
Birth Name Andreas Sidon
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday 4th February 1963
place of birth Wuppertal
style Left delivery
size 1.97 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 53
Victories 41
Knockout victories 34
Defeats 11
No value 1

Andreas Sidon (born February 4, 1963 in Wuppertal , Germany ) is a former German professional boxer in the heavyweight division. Among other things, he was German heavyweight champion.

Life

Sidon's parents were killed in a car accident when he was ten years old. He then grew up in the children's home of the Kropff-Federath Foundation in Olsberg . He attended secondary school and later took a technical diploma . He then successfully completed an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener. He played at TSV Bigge-Olsberg in the district league football . At the age of 25, he moved to Thailand to Thai boxing to learn. To earn money, he fought local people and American soldiers on the beach or in bars.

At the end of 2003 there was a serious car accident in which his partner was killed. Andreas Sidon and his three children were injured, some seriously, in the accident.

Andreas Sidon gave boxing matches for a good cause in order to support orphanages, among other things.

Career

In the mid-1990s Sidon moved from Thailand to Germany again and became German champion in kickboxing and Thai boxing . In 1995 he became vice world champion in Thai boxing for amateurs, in 1997 European champion and world champion in kickboxing for professionals of the IKBO association .

He started amateur boxing at the age of 30 and soon celebrated numerous successes there in the heavyweight division. Sidon was multiple Hesse champion in the super heavyweight division, won the silver medal at the internationally renowned Chemistry Cup in Halle and celebrated the German team championship in the 1st Bundesliga with 1. BC Magdeburg . At the age of 36, when Sidon had passed the age limit for amateur boxers, he decided to continue his career in the professional boxer camp.

His professional debut took place on April 17, 1999. In his second fight he met on May 7, 1999 in Prague on the later world champion Nikolai Valujew . In the first round Sidon was counted twice while standing and Valuev clearly dominated the second round. In the third round, the referee wanted to break off the fight for no apparent reason, but this led to tumult in the audience. The fight continued under chaotic circumstances until the end of the scheduled six rounds, but later not counted.

In 2001 he became International German Heavyweight Champion, but lost the title to Balu Sauer just a few months later . In 2002 the German heavyweight championship followed. On June 14, 2003 he defended the belt against Willi Fischer and initially lost on points. Since Fischer, however, was shown to have taken marijuana in the doping test , Sidon was later declared the winner by disqualification. In the next fight against Joseph Akhasamba he won the belt of the completely insignificant association World Boxing Board . After the serious car accident at the end of 2003, he was back in the ring in January 2004.

On October 9, 2004, he boxed again against Willi Fischer and won on points. In 2005 he traveled to the United States to plan a fight against Riddick Bowe . However, the fight was called off after Bowes fell ill. Later, the management of Evander Holyfield became aware of him, but these fight plans also failed due to health problems Holyfields. On February 7, 2005 he boxed against the Ukrainian boxer Alexander Dimitrenko and went KO in round two. He then won six fights early before losing to Taras Bidenko by technical knockout in the ninth round on October 28, 2006 . He played his next fight in April 2007 against Odlanier Solis , which he lost by a knockout in the first round. After this fight, the usual medical examination revealed calcium deposits in the right carotid artery. The BDB then withdrew his license and the German championship title was declared vacant. Sidon successfully took legal action against this decision. Sidon got his German championship title back and was able to continue his career. On February 23, 2008 Sidon made his comeback and was able to defeat the Czech Martin Stensky without a win in eleven fights by TKO in the 2nd round. On October 16, 2009 Sidon boxed for the meanwhile declared vacant world heavyweight title according to the version of the WBB against Sheldon Hinton and lost by TKO in the third of ten rounds. In 2010 he completed three more fights, of which he was able to win two by TKO and lost one on points. On April 9, 2011 Sidon was supposed to defend his title as German heavyweight champion for the first time in over five years. The fight broke down, however, because his opponent, Jens Plösser , had been taken into custody before the fight for a narcotics and coercion offense . Instead, Sidon boxed against the Czech Radovan Kuca, who had jumped in for Plösser, and was able to win the fight by TKO in the third of four rounds. After the fight, Sidon announced that he would catch up with the fight against Plösser as soon as he was released from prison. In 2012 he became world heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Union .

On May 30, 2015, the unanimous point winner won the vacant World Boxing Board (WBB) world title against Dragan Janjanin from Bosnia-Herzegovina in front of about 650 spectators in the Olsberg concert hall.

BoxRec performs one last fight on November 12, 2016 in Kassel.

Success as an amateur

Andreas Sidon with Axel Schulz 2016
  • 1995: Vice World Champion in Thai boxing - Bangkok
  • 1998: Silver medalist at the Halle Chemistry Cup
  • 1999: German team champion in boxing 1st Bundesliga Magdeburg

Success as a professional

  • 1997: European champion in kickboxing IKBO
  • 1997: World champion in kickboxing IKBO
  • 2000: International Austrian heavyweight champion (professional boxing)
  • 2001: International German heavyweight champion (professional boxing)
  • 2002: German heavyweight champion (BDB)
  • 2003 - 2008: World heavyweight champion ( WBB )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arne Leyenberg: He strikes himself through life , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, November 13, 2011, No. 45, p. 22
  2. ↑ Sidon back to the roots , WAZ of March 28, 2015, accessed April 1, 2015
  3. ↑ Andreas Sidon wants to get involved in "Night of the Heavyweights"
  4. ↑ Sidon sends Kuca to the boards
  5. ↑ Fans push Andreas Sidon to victory , WAZ from June 1, 2015, accessed on June 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sidon, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal