Conrad Velensek

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Conrad Velensek boxer
Data
Birth Name Conrad Velensek
Weight class Lightweight and heavyweight
nationality German
birthday March 1, 1942
place of birth Heerlen , Netherlands
size 172 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles 50
Victories 26th
Knockout victories 13
Defeats 20th
draw 4th

Conrad "Conny" Velensek (born March 1, 1942 in Heerlen , Netherlands ) is a former German boxer . As a professional boxer he was European light heavyweight champion and German heavyweight champion.

Life

Velensek, the son of a miner from Slovenia and the tenth child of his parents, was born in the Netherlands. In 1954 he took on German citizenship. At the age of nine he started boxing in the SKK Roland Schöningen club. As an amateur Velensek won the Lower Saxony Championship, in September 1966 he played his first fight as a professional boxer.

As a boxer, he was referred to as "a Wurschtler or a vole" and preferred close combat. Velensek had great taker skills. In April 1970, Velensek, who was regretted by Willy Zeller as a manager, fought in Offenbach against Rüdiger Schmidtke for the German light heavyweight championship, but lost on points. In the Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin , Velensek competed in January 1971 for a fee of 10,000 DM against European champion Piero del Papa from Italy and won after 15 rounds on points. His victory, and thus the European Championship title, was a sensation.

Velensek defended the title of European Champion in May 1971 in West Berlin against Chris Finnegan from the United Kingdom . The fight, which was classified as a "merciless battle", ended in a draw. Velensek, who attacked his opponent with raid-like attacks, therefore remained the title holder. According to Hamburger Abendblatt , he resisted against Finnegan as against del Papa an opponent "who was actually a few sizes too big for him". In November 1971, Velensek was arrested, along with his manager Zeller and two other boxers, on charges of assault. He was granted exemption from custody in return for bail of DM 20,000. In early February 1972, Velensek and Finnegan went to Nottingham for a rematch. Velensek lost on points after the Briton had determined the fight, especially between the 11th and 15th round.

Karl-Heinz Klein was Velensek's opponent when he made a second attempt in Cologne in October 1973 to become German light heavyweight champion. 4,000 spectators attended the fight which, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt, went down "as one of the most exciting post-war ring battles in a German hall in history". Klein just won.

After switching to the heavyweight division, Velensek finally succeeded in securing a German championship title in professional boxing: at the beginning of February 1974 he defeated Hartmut Sasse clearly on points in the Ernst-Merck-Halle in Hamburg . Velensek, who, according to a report in the Hamburger Abendblatt , convinced with “clout, indomitable will, dogged toughness and astonishing physical condition”, won the German championship. Already in May 1974 he had to give up the title again when he clearly lost on points against the 26 centimeter taller Bernd August in Hamburg . In 1975 Velensek fought his last fight as a professional boxer.

In addition to his boxing career, he worked as a bar host in Schöningen ; he previously worked as a miner and still during his time as a professional boxer in production at Volkswagen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Conrad Velensek in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710123.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710123_HA_025.pdf
  3. ↑ a b Conrad Velensek in the BoxRec databaseTemplate: BoxRec ID / Maintenance / Wikidata-Kenner not set
  4. ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Noack: How Conny, the bear, learns to dance again. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. August 12, 1978, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Fur and Punch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1971, p. 150 f . ( online - November 29, 1971 ).
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19700417.pdf/ASV_HAB_19700417_HA_032.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710506.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710506_HA_021.pdf
  8. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1972/pdf/19720202.pdf/ASV_HAB_19720202_HA_009.pdf
  9. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19731027.pdf/ASV_HAB_19731027_HA_011.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1974/pdf/19740202.pdf/ASV_HAB_19740202_HA_009.pdf
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1974/pdf/19740517.pdf/ASV_HAB_19740517_HA_008.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Velensek, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Velensek, Conny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerlen