Erik Pfeifer

Erik Pfeifer
Data
Birth Name	Erik Pfeifer
Fight name	The hammer
Weight class	Super heavyweight
nationality	Germany German
birthday	January 22, 1987
place of birth	Russia asbestos
style	Left delivery
size	1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	7th
Victories	7th
Knockout victories	5
Defeats	0
draw	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Erik Pfeifer medal table
Boxing
Germany Germany
World championships
bronze	2013	Super heavyweight
bronze	2011	Super heavyweight
EU championships
gold	2009	Super heavyweight

Erik Pfeifer (* 22. January 1987 in Asbestos , Sverdlovsk Oblast , former Soviet Union ) is a German professional boxer and current European Champion of the World Federation WBO in the heavyweight division .

As an amateur, he was a five-time German champion, winner of the EU championships in 2009, bronze medalist at the world championships in 2011 and 2013, as well as an Olympian in 2012 and 2016. In 2016, he became the first boxer to win the APB world championship title of the amateur world association AIBA .

Career

Erik Pfeifer moved from Russia to Lohne in Lower Saxony in 1994 and started boxing at the Blau-Weiß Lohne sports club . Later he also trained at the Olympic base in Heidelberg and, as a sports soldier, was also a member of the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group . With a fighting weight of over 100 kg, he always boxed as an amateur in the super heavyweight (+ 91 kg).

In 2016 he was awarded the Lower Saxony Sports Medal.

German championships

Erik Pfeifer became German Junior Champion in 2005 and won a bronze medal at the German Adult Championships in 2007 after being eliminated in the semifinals against Erkan Teper .

In 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013 he won the title of German Champion.

European championships, world championships and Olympic games

Erik Pfeifer won a bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Estonia in 2005 , where he also managed a victory against Andrzej Wawrzyk . He then only reappeared when he won the EU championships in Denmark in 2009 . He also started at the 2009 World Championships in Italy , but lost there in the round of 16 against Zhang Zhilei .

At the 2011 World Championships in Azerbaijan he defeated, among others, Roman Kapitonenko and Wiktar Sujeu , which made him move into the semifinals. There he was eliminated from Anthony Joshua with a bronze medal. With this success he was qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where he lost to Ivan Dytschko in the preliminary round .

He ended the 2013 European Championships in Belarus with a defeat in the quarterfinals against Sergei Kuzmin , but won another bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Kazakhstan . He beat Mihai Nistor and lost again in the semifinals to Iwan Dytschko.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he lost in the preliminary round to Clayton Laurent .

World Series of Boxing (WSB)

In 2010 the semi-professional World Series of Boxing , designed as a team championship, came about . Pfeifer took part for the German Eagles team in 2012/13 and for Team Germany in 2013/14. In 2013 the team was eliminated in the group stage and in 2014 in the quarter-finals.

WSB result;

November 2012: Victory against Anatoliy Antonyuk, Team Ukrainian Otamans
January 2013: Victory against Tony Yoka , Team Italia Thunder
November 2013: Victory against Yaovi Agbonson, Team Algeria Desert Hawks
January 2014: Victory against Facundo Ghiglione, Team Argentina Condors
February 2014: Victory against Paul Koon, Team USA Knockouts
April 2014: loss to Ruslan Myrsatayev, Team Astana Arlans

AIBA Pro Boxing

From October 2014 the amateur boxing association AIBA organized a world championship tournament cycle under professional conditions, which also served as qualification for the 2016 Olympic Games. Pfeifer won against the professional boxer Ahmed Samir, who lives in the USA, against the later world and Olympic champion Tony Yoka , as well as against the two-time European championship bronze winner Mihai Nistor and the African champion Mohamed Arjaoui , becoming the organization's first APB world champion and buying a ticket for the 2016 Olympic Games. He lost the APB title to Mihai Nistor in a rematch in 2015.

APB result;

October 2014: Victory against Ahmed Samir from Egypt
November 2014: Victory against Tony Yoka from France
December 2014: Victory against Mihai Nistor from Romania
January 2015: Victory against Mohamed Arjaoui from Morocco
September 2015: Defeat against Mihai Nistor from Romania

International tournaments

2008; 1st place Peace Tournament in Bosnia
2008; 2nd place Saint-Quentin Tournament in France
2008; 1st place Beogradski Pobednik Tournament in Serbia
2008; 3rd place in the Bocskai Tournament in Hungary
2008; 2nd place chemistry cup in Germany
2010; 3rd place China Open in China
2011; 2nd place chemistry cup in Germany
2012; 3rd place chemistry cup in Germany
2015; 2nd place Olympic Test Event in Brazil
2015; 1st place in the World Cup of Petroleum Countries in Russia
2015; 1st place Tammer tournament in Finland
2016; 1st place Georgiy Zhukov Tournament in Russia

Professional career

In August 2018 Pfeifer signed a professional contract with the Hamburg boxing stable EC Boxpromotion of the promoter Erol Ceylan. He won his debut on September 15, 2018 in Hamburg against the Georgian Davit Gogishvili.

After six wins in a row, on November 16, 2019 in Halle (Saale) he boxed against the Bosnian Adnan Redžović for the European heavyweight championship title of the WBO and won through technical knockout (TKO) after his opponent gave up at the end of the fifth round.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Pfeifer, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German amateur boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Asbestos , Soviet Union

[1] Portrait at sportschau.de

[2] Portrait at BoxRec.com

[3] Portrait at sports-reference.com

[4] Annual Reception of Sports in Lower Saxony 2016

[5] DJM 2005

[6] DM 2007

[7] DM 2008

[8] DM 2009

[9] DM 2010

[10] DM 2012

[11] DM 2013

[12] Junior European Championship 2005

[13] EU championship 2009

[14] World Championships 2009

[15] World Championships 2011

[16] Olympic Games 2012

[17] European Championships 2013

[18] World Championships 2013

[19] 2016 Olympic Games

[20] World Series of Boxing - 2nd Round

[21] World Series of Boxing - 6th Round

[22] World Series of Boxing - 1st Round

[23] World Series of Boxing - 5th Round

[24] World Series of Boxing - 9th Round

[25] World Series of Boxing - 2nd leg of quarterfinals

[26] The first night of AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Pre-Ranking action started with a top-class performance

[27] APB Pre Ranking Phase Round 2

[28] APB Ranking 2014

[29] Erik Pfeifer makes APB history with World Title victory in Baku

[30] APB World Championship

[31] Peace Tournament 2008

[32] Saint-Quentin Tournament 2008

[33] Beogradski Pobednik Tournament 2008

[34] Bocskai Tournament 2008

[35] Chemistry Cup 2008

[36] China Open 2010

[37] Chemistry Cup 2011

[38] Chemistry Cup 2012

[39] Olympic Test Event 2015

[40] World Cup of Petroleum Countries 2015

[41] Tammer tournament 2015

[42] Georgiy Zhukov Tournament 2016

[43] Two-time Olympic participant Erik Pfeifer switches to the professional camp