Horst Benedens

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Horst Benedens boxer
Data
Birth Name {{{realname}}}
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday June 19, 1942
Date of death March 11, 2019
Combat Statistics
Struggles 41
Victories 27
Knockout victories 17th
Defeats 11
draw 3

Horst Benedens (born June 19,  1942 ; † March 11, 2019 ) was a German boxer . He was a German champion in professional boxing ( heavyweight ).

Life

Benedens, born in the Rhineland and based in Berlin from 1962 , became German amateur light heavyweight champion in 1962 . The trained pipe fitter fought his first fight as a professional boxer at the end of January 1963 in the Sportpalast in Schöneberg . Benedens won 13 of his first 14 fights and there was also a draw. In November 1964 Benedens had to admit defeat for the first time as a professional boxer, he was defeated in the Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle Bas van Duivenbode from the Netherlands by knockout in the fourth round. Ten months later, Benedens won another duel against van Duivenbode. In 1966 he remained without a win with four losses and one draw.

At the end of November 1969 he competed in front of 10,000 spectators in the Berlin Deutschlandhalle in a European championship match in the light heavyweight division against defending champion Piero del Papa from Italy . According to the Hamburger Abendblatt , the duel "turned into a bad brawl" at the fair. Both fighters boxed poorly, Benedens knocked the Italian to the ground in the course of the fight, but shortly before the end of the 15th and last round, Benedens, who was clearly behind on points, lost by breaking off. At the beginning of the 1970s, Benedens, his manager Willy Zeller and other boxers were investigated on charges of deprivation of liberty, coercion, dangerous bodily harm and trespassing, after he had participated in vigilante justice as a result of a robbery in a Zeller fur shop. Benedens was sentenced by the Berlin Regional Court to a fine of 600 D-Marks. In another case, Benedens was fined 4,000 D-Marks or 125 days in prison after injuring a guest while working at a restaurant.

After he switched to the heavyweight division, he fought in January 1971 in the Deutschlandhalle against Peter Weiland for the German championship. Benedens determined the duel and was in the lead on points when the fight was stopped during the break for the eighth round due to an injury by Weiland. Benedens was the new German heavyweight champion. He was promoted to the main fighter, in May 1971 the protégé received from trainer Harry Kneipp with 12,000 D-Marks for the fight against the Brazilian Getulio Bueno in Hamburg, the highest payment of his career to date. He lost against Bueno, however, and revealed several weak points except for his strong left hand, including poor coverage.

Benedens later had to give up the German championship title because of a license withdrawal. He fought his last fight in December 1972 (defeat against the Argentine Gregorio Peralta). In April 1973, a fight against the former European champion Jürgen Blin broke down , as Benedens had brain damage and he was therefore banned from boxing. Benedens lodged an objection against the refused renewal of his boxing license by the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB), and the BDB appeal committee ordered further reports and investigations.

After his boxing career, he ran the “Benedens” bar in Berlin's Waitzstrasse, where celebrities such as Wim Thoelke , Harald Juhnke and Frank Zander  frequented. According to the Berliner Zeitung , Benedens became a millionaire and owned properties in Mallorca and in the Grunewald . After financial difficulties there was the crash, in the year 2000 Benedens reduced tax debts in the amount of 800,000 D-Marks, he worked as a caretaker's assistant and lived in poor circumstances.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ death notices by Horst Benedens | Tagesspiegel mourning. Accessed on April 26, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710508.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710508_HA_011.pdf
  3. ↑ Boxing - Amateurs (German Championships Part 3). In: Sport Complete. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c BoxRec: Horst Benedens. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1964/pdf/19641107.pdf/ASV_HAB_19641107_HA_021.pdf
  6. ↑ UFA case 749/1970 - films of the Federal Archives. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19701128.pdf/ASV_HAB_19701128_HA_038.pdf
  8. ↑ Blunt abdominal trauma - DER SPIEGEL 26/1977. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ BOXING: Fur and Punch - DER SPIEGEL 49/1971. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710123.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710123_HA_025.pdf
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710515.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710515_HA_009.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19731027.pdf/ASV_HAB_19731027_HA_011.pdf
  13. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19730405.pdf/ASV_HAB_19730405_HA_025.pdf
  14. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19731002.pdf/ASV_HAB_19731002_HA_019.pdf
  15. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19731004.pdf/ASV_HAB_19731004_HA_025.pdf
  16. ↑ The descent of the Berlin boxing idol Horst Benedens. Debt, wife gone, suicide attempt. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Benedens, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1942
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2019