Eberhard Thust
Eberhard Anton Thust (born November 16, 1947 in Frankfurt-Sossenheim ) is a former German boxing promoter.
Life
In 1966, Thust began his career as an official at the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB). He worked as a timekeeper and second , later also as a manager, technical director and promoter. He brought his friend Rüdiger Schmidtke to professional boxing, although Schmidtke was never an amateur. Schmidtke was European light heavyweight champion in 1972 . Thust also had manager contracts with other fighters. As technical director, he organized around seventy events, mostly by Wilfried Sauerland , and thereby influenced the German boxing scene in the 1980s.
He also organized the first five fights of the Klitschko brothers in Frankfurt am Main , Offenbach am Main and Stuttgart . There were also others with Dariusz Michalczewski and Markus Beyer in the Frankfurt Ball Sports Hall . Thust had a 50% share in the management of Željko Mavrović .
In 1986 he received the Golden Badge of Honor from the then BDB President Klaus-Peter Kohl "for special services to German professional boxing".
In 1990 Thust became known through the "Graf Affair". Thust, who was in a relationship with Playboy model Nicole Meissner at the time, was charged by the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office with having extorted at least DM 800,000 from Peter Graf , the father of tennis player Steffi Graf . The reason for blackmail was the relationship that Thust's partner Nicole Meissner had with Peter Graf. A daughter (* 1990) should have emerged from this relationship. However, a later hereditary biology report contradicted Graf's paternity. Like his accomplice Nicole Meissner, Thust was sentenced to three years in prison for extortion .
In 1999 he published a book about his life. In 2001 he moved from Frankfurt to a finca in Mallorca and continued to look after boxers from there. Ulrich May, father of Olympic champion Torsten May , was signed up as coach . Thust brought three of his boxers into the Universum boxing promotion and received a consulting contract from them. In 2005, Thust founded the World Fight Club (WFC), an organization based in Palma, together with the Spaniard Ramon Guirao Diaz . The WFC is an unofficial association for several martial arts. In addition, Thust has been running a boxing internet portal with the name boxing1 since 2010 together with his wife Sonja and from 2015 together with Jonny Orbán . In March 2016, Thust was made an honorary member of the Association of German Professional Boxers. At that time he had been a member of the association for 50 years.
Thust was married to Roswitha Thust for the first time. There were two children from this marriage. His daughter from the relationship with Nicole Meissner lives with him on Mallorca. Thust has been married to his second wife Sonja (* 1975) since 1999. Thust previously lived in Niedernhausen .
Well-known Thust boxers
- Rüdiger Schmidtke , European light heavyweight champion
- Charly Graf , German heavyweight champion
- José Varela , European welterweight champion; German champion in welterweight and super welterweight
- Reiner Hartmann , German heavyweight champion
- Erwin Heiber , German middleweight champion
- Branco Sobot , IBF Intercontinental Champion
- Ralf Rocchigiani , WBO world cruiserweight champion
- Željko Mavrović , European heavyweight champion
- Willi Fischer , WBO Intercontinental Champion ; German champion and world heavyweight champion
- Firat Arslan , WBA cruiserweight champion
- Mark Hendem , German International Cruiserweight Champion
- Ante Bilić , WBC junior world champion in super welterweight
- Konni Konrad , WBC junior world champion in the super middleweight division
Film "Ebbies Bluff"
- In 1993 Thust played a small supporting role as a boxing promoter in the movie Ebbies Bluff .
literature
- Eberhard Thust: Splendor and misery . Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-980-58766-5
Discography
- 1998: Freedom for Ebby Thust CD by Halma
- 2000: Life is a Fight
Web links
- Literature by and about Eberhard Thust in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ebby Thust
- Boxing1 - The German boxing portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is my creation - SPIEGEL reporter Gisela Friedrichsen in the trial against Nicole Meissner and Eberhard Thust in: Der Spiegel 7/1992 of February 10, 1992
- ^ Judgment: Nicole Meissner, 23, photo model, and Eberhard Thust, 44. In: spiegel.de. February 24, 1992, accessed April 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Boxing1 - The German boxing portal - About us. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .
- ^ Honorary members of the BDB - Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer eV In: Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB). Retrieved September 25, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thust, Eberhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thust, Ebby; Thust, Eberhard Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxing promoter and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt-Sossenheim |