Franz Dorfer

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Franz Dorfer (left) fighting Mohamed Azarhazin at the 1976 Olympic Games

Franz Dorfer (born May 20, 1950 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ; † January 8, 2012 in Mödling ) was an Austrian boxer .

Life

Dorfer grew up on a farm and became a cheese maker in a milk factory. After his basic military service in the armed forces , he attended the gendarmerie schools in Mödling and Vösendorf . He began to work as an auxiliary gendarme and joined the Viennese "Black and White Boxing Club" under Josef Kovarik. He had already discovered his passion for boxing with the armed forces and was convincing with his unusually hard right hook. As an amateur, he played 49 fights, including 38 wins and 5 draws.

Career

From 1973 to 1976, he was Austrian light middleweight champion four times in a row. During the same period, he also won the Vienna Championships four times. At the 21st European Championships in Poland in 1975, he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division. He won by knockout in the second round against the Finn Kalevi Kosunen (bronze medalist at the European Championship 1979) and by knockout in the third round against the Bulgarian Ilya Ilyev (bronze medalist at the 1978 World Cup). In the semifinals he met the silver medalist of the 1972 Olympic Games and later European champion Wiesław Rudkowski ; He had this on the ground, but lost in the end on points. He is the last Austrian boxer to date to win a medal in an amateur European Championship for adults.

He was also a participant in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal ; there he lost, however, the preliminary round fight against the Iranian Mohamed Azarhazin. Then he switched to the professional camp.

He boxed in Austria, Germany, Bosnia, Serbia, the Netherlands and Switzerland. On December 16, 1977 he won by knockout in the first round against the German champion Horst Brinkmeyer. On April 22, 1978 he won by knockout in the second round against the Italian champion Tommaso Marocco. On August 18 of the same year, he also won by knockout in the fourth round against the multiple Yugoslav champions Branko Baraković. In 1977 he also boxed two draws against Turkey's Mehmet Beşli.

On September 1, 1980, he boxed against the undefeated, later European champion Alex Blanchard , but lost by knockout in the third round. He also lost to ex-European champion Marijan Beneš on November 6, 1981 by knockout in the fourth round.

On June 3, 1982 he defeated the later European champion Edip Sekowitsch by knockout in the third round and thereby became Austrian middleweight champion. He also won the rematch against Sekowitsch on October 28th by knockout in the eighth round. On October 24, 1983, he also won on points against the multiple Italian champion and ex-European champion Matteo Salvemini . On April 27, 1984 he was defeated by the later, two-time world champion Graciano Rocchigiani by knockout in the second round. On December 13, 1986 he played his last boxing match; he won by knockout in the fourth round against the German Rüdiger Bitterling.

He ended his professional career with 23 wins (19 by knockout), 11 losses (5 by knockout) and 2 draws.

He died after a serious illness on January 8, 2012 in the Thermenregion Mödling Regional Hospital .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Franz Dorfer (amateur) in the BoxRec Wiki
  2. ^ Franz Dorfer (May 20, 1950 - † January 8, 2012). In: Boxing-austria.eu. Pugilist Association Austria - Austrian Boxing Federation, January 11, 2012, accessed on February 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ 21st European Championships - Katowice, Poland - June 1-8 1975 (results of the European Championships 1975) on Boxing-strefa.pl, accessed on February 12, 2014
  4. ↑ 21. Olympic Games - Montreal, Canada - July 18-31 1976 (results of the 1976 Olympic Games) on Boxing-strefa.pl
  5. ^ Franz Dorfer in the BoxRec database
personal data
SURNAME Dorfer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidhofen an der Ybbs
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2012
Place of death Mödling