Corrie Sanders

Corrie Sanders
Data
Birth Name	Cornelius Johannes Sanders
Fight name	The sniper
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	South African
birthday	7th January 1966
place of birth	Pretoria
Date of death	23rd September 2012
Place of death	Pretoria
style	Legal display
size	1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	46
Victories	42
Knockout victories	31
Defeats	4th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Cornelius Johannes "Corrie" Sanders (born January 7, 1966 in Pretoria , South Africa ; † September 23, 2012 ibid) was a South African boxer and world heavyweight champion according to the WBO version .

Sanders was considered a very aggressive boxer with immense punch and strong taker qualities. Due to the fact that he was not very diligent in training, he had problems with stamina throughout his career if he could not decide his fights within the first rounds.

Boxing career

Sander's record as an amateur boxer was 180-11 with four wins over Francois Botha . His first fight as a pro denied the southpaw on 4 February 1989 against his compatriot Dyubele he by technical o. K. won in the first round. In the following years he won victories over Johnny DuPloy and Bert Cooper .

He suffered his first defeat on May 21, 1994 against Nate Tubbs , then sparring partner of Mike Tyson , when he lost to knockout in round two.

He then won 13 fights in a row, including against Carlos De León , Ross Puritty and Bobby Czyz . On May 20, 2000, he met Hasim Rahman . In the third round he managed a knockdown, but he could not win the fight at this point. Instead, he had to go down several times and finally lost the fight to technical knockout.

After two short victories against Michael Sprott and Otis Tisdale, he got talking to a fight against Wladimir Klitschko , who was looking for an opponent to defend the WBO World Championship after allegedly eleven other boxers had previously refused to play against Klitschko. Sanders finally agreed.

WBO title win

On March 8, 2003, there was an encounter with Wladimir Klitschko in Hanover . Klitschko went into this dispute with the already 37-year-old Sanders, who was considered untrained, as a high favorite. However, Sanders quickly got four knockdowns, which caused the referee to stop the fight in the second round and to declare Sanders the winner by a technical knockout.

The WBO then demanded a compulsory defense of his title against Lamon Brewster . But since he, now 38 years old, wanted to make only a few, financially lucrative fights at the end of his career, he resigned this title in order to be able to fight against Vitali Klitschko for the vacant WBC world title .

WBC title fight

On April 24, 2004, he arrived in Los Angeles on Vitali Klitschko and lost the fight by technical knockout. In the eighth round. Although he managed to land some good hits in the first rounds that impressed Klitschko, the fight nevertheless developed in Klitschko's favor, also helped by Sanders' well-known physical condition problems. After many hard hits by Klitschko, the fight was finally stopped sixteen seconds before the end of the eighth round.

Attempts at comeback

On April 27, 2004, he initially announced his retirement from professional boxing. But his retirement did not last long, on December 14, 2004 he was back in the ring and defeated Alexei Warakin by knockout in the second round.

On November 24, 2006, Sanders returned to the ring after nearly two years of inactivity, defeating Australian national heavyweight champion Colin Wilson early in the second round. On May 12, 2007 Sanders won the fight against Daniel Bispo clearly on points. On February 2, 2008, however, he went surprisingly against Osborne Machimana (balance 14-5) in the first round by a body hit knockout, which his plans for a new fight against Wladimir Klitschko had done.

List of professional fights

42 wins (31 knockout wins), 4 losses (4 knockout losses), 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Sanders
1989	2nd of April	Good Hope Center, Cape Town, South Africa	King Kong Dyubele	Victory / TKO 1st round
	April 24th	Goodwood Showgrounds, Cape Town, South Africa	Prince toucans	Points win / 4 rounds
	May 27th	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	David Malatsi	Victory / TKO 1st round
	5th of August	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Gideon Hlongwa	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	the 9th of September	Morula Sun Casino, Mabopane, South Africa	Samson Mahlangu	Victory / TKO 3rd round
1990	March 29	Portuguese Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa	Weaver Qwabe	Victory / TKO 1st round
	23. May	First National Bank Arena, Durban, South Africa	Jorge Vilchis	Victory / KO 1st round
	4th of August	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Moses Mthama	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 8th	Biloxi, Mississippi, USA	Steve Zouski	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
1991	April 6th	Dolphin Center, Darlington, UK	Steve Gee	Victory / TKO 4th round
	July 27th	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Johnny Du Plooy	Victory / KO 1st round
	September 28th	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Mike Rouse	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	November 23	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Art Card	Victory / TKO 1st round
1992	February 22	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Anthony Wade	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	May 9	Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA	Mike Dixon	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	August 22nd	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Mike Evans	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	October 24th	Morula Sun Casino, Mabopane, South Africa	Johnny Nelson	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
1993	17th April	Arco Arena , Sacramento (California), USA	Matthew Brooks	Victory / TKO 1st round
	June 26th	Resorts International, Atlantic City (New Jersey), USA	Bert Cooper	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	September 4th	Aladdin Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA	George Stephens	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 6th	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Levi Billups	Victory / KO 1st round
1994	February 5th	Aladdin Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA	Marshall Tillman	Victory / TKO 6th round
	19th March	Carousel Casino, Gauteng, South Africa	Mike Williams	Victory / KO 1st round
	May 21	Carousel Casino, Gauteng, South Africa	Nate Tubbs	Defeat / KO 2nd round
	13 August	Convention Hall, Atlantic City (New Jersey), USA	Carlos De León	Victory / TKO 1st round
	September 24th	Wembley Arena , London, UK	Garing Lane	Points win / 8 rounds
1995	April 1st	Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa	Nikolay Kulpin	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	5th of August	Lujan Building, Albuquerque, USA	James Pritchard	Victory / TKO 1st round
1996	January 26th	Metropole Hotel, Brighton, UK	Keith Fletcher	Victory / KO 2nd round
	20th of July	Morula Sun, Mabopane, South Africa	Curtis Shepard	Victory / KO 1st round
	20th of August	Madison Square Garden Theater, New York City, USA	Sean Hart	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	12th September	Huntington Hotel Casino, Melville, USA	Olian Alexander	Victory / TKO 2nd round
1997	February 7th	Hilton Hotel , Las Vegas, USA	Arthur Weathers	Victory / TKO 1st round
	15th of November	Carousel Casino, Gauteng, South Africa	Ross Puritty vacant WBU championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
1998	June 12	Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, USA	Bobby Czyz WBU championship defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
1999	2nd July	Whitchurch Sports Center, Bristol, UK	Jorge Valdes WBU championship defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
2000	19th of February	Carnival City, Brakpan, South Africa	Alfred Cole WBU championship defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
	May 20th	Ballys Park Place Hotel Casino, Atlantic City (New Jersey), USA	Hasim Rahman WBU championship defense	Loss / TKO 7th round
2001	November 3rd	Carnival City, Brakpan, South Africa	Michael Sprott	Victory / KO 1st round
2002	November 9th	Cola-Cola Center, Oklahoma City, USA	Otis Tisdale	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2003	8th of March	Preussag Arena , Hanover, Germany	Wladimir Klitschko WBO World Championship	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2004	April 24th	Staples Center , Los Angeles, USA	Vitali Klitschko vacant WBC world championship	Loss / TKO 8th round
	December 14th	Freizeit Arena, Sölden (Ötztal), Austria	Alexey Varakin	Victory / KO 2nd round
2006	November 24th	Convention Center, Mafikeng, South Africa	Colin Wilson	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2007	12th of May	Emperors Palace, Gauteng, South Africa	Daniel Bispo	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2008	February 2nd	Emperors Palace, Gauteng, South Africa	Osborne Machimana	Loss / KO 1st round

Life after boxing

In July 2010, Sanders was interviewed by a journalist from Sport Bild . He'd worked at Absa Bank, South Africa, since his boxing career ended , towing customers' cars that couldn't repay their loans.

On September 22, 2012, Corrie Sanders was shot in a fast food restaurant in Brits , northwest of Pretoria. He died as a result of the gunshot wounds on September 23, 2012 in Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria.

Web links

• Corrie Sanders in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corrie Sanders dies
2. ↑ Boxing heavyweight Corrie Sanders murdered ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Obituary on sueddeutsche.de (two-part)

predecessor	Office	successor
Wladimir Klitschko	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) March 8, 2003–9. October 2003	Lamon Brewster