Buddy Baer

This article deals with the American boxer Buddy Baer who appears under the name . For the bear sculpture, with a similarly written name, see Buddy Bear .

Buddy Baer
Data
Birth Name	Jacob Henry Baer
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	June 11, 1915
place of birth	Denver
Date of death	July 18, 1986
Place of death	Martinez
style	Left delivery
size	1.98 m
Range	2.13 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	60
Victories	53
Knockout victories	49
Defeats	7th
draw	0
No value	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Buddy Baer (born June 11, 1915 in Denver , Colorado as Jacob Henry Baer , † July 18, 1986 in Martinez , California ) was an American heavyweight boxer. He was the brother of Max Baer and the uncle of Max Baer Jr. He was very young when he moved his family from Denver to Livermore .

Boxing career

Baer had enormous punching power and a very muscular body. On September 23, 1934 he made his professional debut against Tiny Abbott and won by knockout in Round 1.

He was able to win his first 13 fights all by knockout. In his 14th fight, however, he was completely surprisingly beaten by Babe Hunt on points over four rounds. He was able to beat some opponents without any problems until he met Ford Smith and suffered his second defeat against him. He won his next three fights, but Andre Lenglet inflicted his third loss on points.

In 1936 he met Babe Hunt again, who had defeated him once before. This time he knocked out Hunt heavily in the first round. He had other impressive wins, most of them classic knockouts.

In March 1938 he met the Finnish amateur European champion Gunnar Bärlund . Baer lost to TKo for the first time . But he kept going because he was only 22 years old. He continued to beat his opponents impressively. However, he had to take another point defeat. But he came back with an impressive win against Tony Galento .

On May 23, 1941 there was a fight against Joe Louis . Baer knocked Louis out of the ring on the first round with an extremely hard left hook. Louis was counted, but came back in time and won the fight by disqualification . Eight months later there was a rematch. Baer had no chance this time, was knocked to the ground three times in the first round and counted the third time. He ended his career after this heavy defeat.

Buddy Baer later said of his second fight against Joe Louis: "The only way I could have hit Joe that night is with a baseball bat ."

In 2003, Buddy Baer was included in the list of the 100 best puncher of all time by the ring magazine .

Movies

Buddy Baer served in the US Army during World War II. After the war ended, he starred in films and appeared on television. Buddy Baer became best known for his role in the monumental film Quo vadis? 1951, where he was the giant bodyguard Ursus and had to protect the Christian state hostage Lygia, embodied by Deborah Kerr . At the end of a spectacular exhibition fight in Rome's amphitheater he defeats a huge, wild bull and heralds the end of Nero, embodied by Peter Ustinov . In 1952, he played under the direction of Howard Hawks in the Western The Big Sky - The Big Sky on the side of Kirk Douglas , the role of Romaine. In the 1953 adventure film The Rebel of Java , he was also given a smaller role due to his athletic stature. In 1958 he played a major role as a giant Vargas in the clutches of the giants of Richard E. Cunha .

Web links

• Buddy Baer in the BoxRec database (English)
• Buddy Baer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual proof

1. ↑ Info about Buddy Baer in the BoxRec database (English)