Duane Bobick

Duane Bobick
Data
Birth Name	Duane Bobick
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	September 24, 1950
place of birth	Bowlus
style	Left delivery
size	1.91 m
Range	2.08 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	52
Victories	48
Knockout victories	42
Defeats	4th

Duane Bobick (born September 24, 1950 in Bowlus , Minnesota ) is a retired American heavyweight boxer.

amateur

In 1971 he was knocked out against Ron Lyle , but was American champion, military world champion in Rotterdam and won the Pan American Games in Cali , where he beat the young Cuban Teófilo Stevenson in the semifinals by just on points. In 1972 he defeated Larry Holmes in the Olympic elimination by disqualification and won the national Golden Gloves tournament. He went to the Olympic Games in Munich as the favorite , where he met Stevenson again in the quarterfinals and lost prematurely without a chance. His amateur record was 93 wins (61 KO's) with 13 defeats.

professional

Despite the heavy shock at the Olympics, it weighed 96 kg, a standard weight at the time, and went to the professionals as a “white hope”.

It was set up extremely carefully. In 1974 he won against the then unknown Mike Weaver , whom he had already beaten on points as an amateur, by knockout in round seven. He got more victories against Randy Neuman by knockout, Scott LeDoux (later challenger of Larry Holmes) on points and Chuck Wepner due to lacerations.

After 26 successes, he signed Joe Frazier as manager, but looked very bad in some fights, for example against Bunny Johnson.

With 38 fights already, very late compared to the typical build-up of a boxer, he met Ken Norton in 1977 , who had just lost controversially to Ali. The fight exceeded even the worst fears when Bobick was knocked out in the first round after a blow to the larynx .

He defeated LeDoux prematurely in a rematch, but went KO in the fight but one against the South African Kallie Knoetze and never made it to the top of the world. After two more KO defeats, including against John Tate , he stopped in 1979.

Others

In 1997 he had a serious accident as a worker in a paper mill, which affected both arms. His younger brother Rodney was also a heavyweight boxer, but died in a traffic accident at the age of 25.

Web links

• Duane Bobick in the BoxRec database
• East side boxing