Arno Prick

Arno Prick
Data
Birth Name	Arno Prick
Weight class	Lightweight and heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	October 7, 1946
Combat Statistics
Struggles	58
Victories	29
Knockout victories	12
Defeats	25th
draw	4th

Arno Prick (born October 7,  1946 ) is a former German boxer .

Life

In 1964  Prick, who came from the district of Thorn and boxed for the Harburger Sport Club in Hamburg in 1904/1907 , became German junior middleweight champion. In February 1966 he fought his first fight as a professional boxer. He remained undefeated until November 1969 and achieved 18 victories in a row. The last win in this series came Prick in November 1969 in the fight against Herbert Wick, who had been proclaimed as the "Hamburg boxing derby". "It was not a revelation, even if Prick's blow explosions in the third and eighth round indicated his possibilities," reported the Hamburger Abendblatt after the duel in the Ernst-Merck-Halle , which Prick won on points.

His next fight took place in January 1970 in Frankfurt am Main and was the German light heavyweight championship. Prick, who worked as a businessman, met Rüdiger Schmidtke and lost on points. According to the Hamburger Abendblatt , Prick, who received 10,000 D-Marks for the fight, gave up “his security principle” too late and “only partially used his skills and opportunities”. In February 1970 Prick boxed for the first time abroad, he lost in Rotterdam  to the Dutchman Bas van Duivenbode. In the further course of 1970 and 1971 further fights took place in other countries, namely in Spain and South Africa . After his points victory against the French Christian Poncelet in March 1972, the Hamburger Abendblatt Prick issued an unflattering report. "If Prick was entitled to high hopes years ago as a light heavyweight, these have become illusory," wrote the paper.

At the end of October 1973 he fought against Hartmut Sasse for the German heavyweight championship title in front of 1,500 spectators in the Alsterdorfer sports hall in Hamburg . Prick hit the ground twice in the seventh round, then again in the eighth round when he was tallied. The reporter Hans-Eckart Jaeger classified the performance of the loser in the fight. Prick boxed until October 1977, including several times abroad, but had to record significantly more defeats than wins in his remaining fights.

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/1970/1970_03_21_12.pdf
2. ↑ http://harburger-sport-club.de/?page_id=21
3. ↑ ^{a b c} https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/21213
4. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1969/pdf/19691122.pdf/ASV_HAB_19691122_HA_037.pdf
5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19700124.pdf/ASV_HAB_19700124_HA_025.pdf
6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19700225.pdf/ASV_HAB_19700225_HA_019.pdf
7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1972/pdf/19720304.pdf/ASV_HAB_19720304_HA_011.pdf
8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19731027.pdf/ASV_HAB_19731027_HA_011.pdf