Gotthard Hinteregger
Gotthard "The Cougar" Hinteregger 
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Gotthard Hinteregger |
| Weight class | Middleweight, light middleweight |
| nationality |
 Austrian
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| birthday | May 16, 1967 |
| place of birth | Villach |
| style | Standard boom |
| size | 180 cm |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 46 |
| Victories | 31 |
| Knockout victories | 15th |
| Defeats | 14th |
| draw | 1 |
Gotthard Hinteregger (born May 16, 1967 in Villach , Carinthia ), fighting name "The Cougar" (German: The Puma) is a former Austrian professional light middleweight boxer and former intercontinental champion of the IBF and WBO world associations .
Boxing career
Hinteregger only started boxing at the age of 27, when he was trained in the basic techniques by martial arts instructor Hans Senfter. After a short amateur career with only eleven fights, he became a professional boxer with the Vienna boxing team in 1997. He completed his first professional fight on September 23, 1997 against the Slovak Marek Jesenic and won on points. Three more wins followed before he boxed his first and only draw on June 13, 1998 against the Slovak Gustav Liptak. In his next fight on October 10, 1998, he suffered the first loss of his career; In his hometown of Vienna he was defeated by the Bosnian Dalibor Kitić due to a technical knockout in round 3. Hinteregger was at the European level until the end of his career due to his positive match record, as a gladly committed opponent for emerging boxing talents.
On April 29, 2000, he boxed in Denmark against Michael Rask, who had boxed against Javier Castillejo for the WBC world title only four months earlier and suffered the first loss of his career. Hinteregger lost the fight by a technical knockout in the 4th round. On July 7, 2001 he lost in Magdeburg in the fight for the International German Championship, by knockout in round 5 against the unbeaten Dirk Dzemski . On October 13, 2001 he lost again by knockout against the later IBO World Champion from Hungary, Mihály Kótai .
On March 2, 2002, he won the Austrian middleweight championship with a knockout victory in round 5 over Zdenek Zubko. On April 13 of the same year he tried to secure the middleweight title of the WBB , but failed at the German champion Danny Thiele by losing points. For this he managed on February 11, 2003 a points victory over the Czech champion Radek Hrabák.
On May 11, 2004, he surprisingly won the IBF Intercontinental Championship in light middleweight, with a knockout victory in round 4 over the undefeated Italian Emanuele Grilli. In this fight, which was broadcast live on Eurosport , Grilli had to go down in the 2nd round and finally suffered the only defeat in the 22 professional fights of his four-year career.
His first title defense he denied on October 8, 2004 as a preliminary to a European championship fight by Nicky Cook (later WBO world champion) in Brentwood, England . His opponent was the former Hungarian welterweight champion and EM challenger Jozsef Matolcsi, who had won 18 of his 24 fights by then, 13 of them by knockout. Hinteregger clearly dominated the fight and sent the Hungarian down a total of four times before Hinteregger himself was hit by a heavy left hook shortly after the start of the 8th round, knocked out into the ring ropes and could not get on his feet for about one and a half minutes came. The fight was later voted the best boxing match of the evening by the British boxing press.
On April 2, 2005 the two of them had a rematch in the German Velten , which was followed by around two million viewers on TV in Hungary alone. This time both boxers were more reserved, with Hinteregger dominating the fight again. Matolcsi were also deducted two points because of constant brackets and low hitting. After the full 12 rounds, Hinteregger was declared the points winner and not only won back the IBF Intercontinental Championship, but also received the vacant WBO Intercontinental Championship . In May 2005 he was already 15th in the WBO world rankings.
On October 29, 2005 he lost the IBF title again in his first title defense by technical knockout in round 11 to the multiple German champion Marco Schulze . He had previously resigned his WBO title to focus on defending the IBF Belt. On December 9, 2005 there was a third meeting with Jozsef Matolcsi; this time they boxed for the vacant world title of the WBF in the light middleweight division. Matolcsi won the fight by technical knockout in round 11, after he had already managed to knock down in round 1. On April 29, 2006 Hinteregger lost on points against the undefeated, later WBC world champion Sebastian Zbik .
On June 25, 2006 he entered the ring in a spectacular fight for the Austrian championship title in light middleweight against the previously undefeated Gogi Knežević . After Knežević had dominated the first three rounds, however, he forgot to wear his mouthguard in the fourth round. Due to a hard straight line from Hinteregger, he lost an incisor that pierced his lower jaw at an angle and made it impossible for him to put his mouthguard back on. Hinteregger was then declared the winner by a technical knockout.
Then he denied unsuccessful fights against the German champions Maurice Weber and Norman Schuster , as well as against the IBF and WBC junior world champion Grzegorz Proksa from Poland.
He played his last professional fight on October 19, 2008 against the Hungarian Gabor Balogh and won on points.
successes
- 2002: Austrian middleweight champion
- May 2004: Intercontinental Light Middleweight Champion of the IBF
- April 2005: Intercontinental Light Middleweight Champion of the IBF
- April 2005: Intercontinental Light Middleweight Champion of the WBO
- 2006: Austrian light middleweight champion
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| SURNAME | Hinteregger, Gotthard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The cougar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villach , Carinthia, Austria |