Bo Högberg

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Höbgerg, Bo boxer
Data
Birth Name Högberg, Bo
Weight class Light middleweight
nationality Swedish
birthday October 18, 1938
place of birth Gothenburg
Date of death November 8, 2005
style Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles 68
Victories 36
Knockout victories 25th
Defeats 6th
draw 1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Bo Högberg (born October 18, 1938 in Gothenburg , † November 8, 2005 ) was a Swedish boxer . He was European champion of professional boxers in the light middleweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Bo Högberg, started boxing as a teenager in Gothenburg. At the age of 17 he was the Swedish champion in the senior lightweight division. This title was followed by two more in the light middleweight division. The last amateur title he won in 1962. In that year he also started in an international match Sweden against Finland and won it in the light middleweight division over Pöyhonen on points. In total, Bo Högberg played 72 amateur fights, of which he won 60.

Profile career

In 1962, Bosse Höberg signed a professional contract with manager and promoter Mogens Palle. He played his first professional fight on April 15, 1962 in Stockholm , which he won against the Dutchman Christian Kok on points. On February 22, 1963 he defeated u. a. the German Heini Freytag from Offenbach by techn. KO in the 3rd round and suffered his first defeat on June 22, 1963 in Karlstad after twelve victorious fights in a row against the Englishman Harry Scott. In this fight he ran into Scott's right hook in the first round and was knocked out.

In the next 14 fights he was victorious again. He won the right to challenge the reigning European light middleweight champion, the Italian Bruno Visintin . The fight Högberg against Visintin for the EBU European Championship took place on January 1, 1966 in Copenhagen and was by Bo Höbgerg by techn. KO won in the 7th round. He was the new EBU European light middleweight champion.

On February 11, 1966 Bo Högberg defended this title against the French Yolande Leveque . Högberg scored a knockdown to eight against Leveque in the first round and clearly dominated the action in the ring in the first half of the fight. But the longer the fight lasted, the better Leveque got. Högberg had to take time twice and in the 14th round the referee broke off the fight in favor of Leveque. Bo Högberg had to give up his European title after 42 days.

On July 1, 1966 in Stockholm in front of 12,000 enthusiastic spectators, he defeated the until then undefeated German champion Werner Mundt from Dortmund by knockout in the 9th round and thus again won the right to challenge Sandro Mazzinghi from Italy , who has meanwhile become the new European light middleweight champion was. The EM fight Högberg against Mazzinghi took place on November 11, 1966 in Stockholm and Mazzinghi won this fight through techn. KO in the 14th round. Högberg's attempt to become European champion again had failed.

Bo Högberg was an immensely popular boxer with the Swedish public because of his tough and uncompromising fighting style. He trained hard and was a real "gladiator" in the ring. His life outside the ring was as extreme as his fighting style. As a result, he came into conflict with the law in 1968 and was imprisoned until 1970. From 1970 professional boxing was banned in Sweden for several years. Bo Högberg, but wanted to box again for financial reasons. He therefore fought two fights against Spanish boxers in Palma in 1973 , but lost both of them. After that, he didn't get back in the ring.

Life outside the ring

Bo Höbgerg was married three times. With Birgit Johansson, the singer Anita Lindblom and Liz Öberg. From these three marriages he had a son and a daughter. In 2004 a Swedish TV director filmed the life of Bo Högberg, in which the extreme way of life of Bo Högberg, many women, many cars and a lot of alcohol, was portrayed. Bo Högberg accepted that with a smile. He died of cancer in 2005.

literature

  • Box Sport magazine from 1956 to 1973,
  • Boxing Almanac 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,

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personal data
SURNAME Högberg, Bo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Högberg, bosses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2005