Jürgen Brähmer

Jürgen Brähmer
Data
Birth Name	Jürgen Brähmer
Weight class	Light heavyweight super middleweight
nationality	German
birthday	5th October 1978
place of birth	Stralsund
style	Legal display
size	1.81 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	54
Victories	51
Knockout victories	37
Defeats	3
Profile in the BoxRec database

Jürgen Brähmer (born October 5, 1978 in Stralsund ) is a German professional boxer and boxing trainer. He is a former regular WBA world champion, former WBO world champion and former European champion of the EBU , both in the light heavyweight division . Brähmer held the regular WBA world title from December 1, 2013 to October 1, 2016 - during the entire period there was, however, a non-stop WBA light heavyweight champion: Beibut Shumenov had already been named "Superchampion" on October 8, 2013, on April 19, 2014 Shumenov lost this title to Bernard Hopkins , Hopkins lost it on November 8, 2014 to Sergey Kovalev . Kovalev held him until November 19, 2016 (the status of super champion is ranked higher than that of regular).

Amateur career (1992–1998)

In 1992, at the age of 13, Brähmer switched from athletics to boxing. He trained at ESV Lok Stralsund under the direction of Heinz-Peter Schmidt. Two years later, his future professional trainer Michael Timm , who was then the state trainer for the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania boxing association , brought him to the Schweriner SC sports boarding school .

In his amateur career, the southpaw Brähmer achieved 95 victories in his 100 fights. Among other things, he defeated Ricky Hatton twice in 1996 , Felix Sturm in the final of the German championship in 1997 and Carl Froch in 1998 . For Schweriner SC he remained undefeated in the Boxing Bundesliga. As an amateur, Brähmer was German youth champion, German junior champion and German light middleweight champion. At the Junior European Championships in 1995 in Siófok , Hungary , he took third place. The highlight of his amateur career was winning the welterweight title at the Junior World Championships in 1996 in the Cuban capital Havana .

Professional career (since 1999)

In 1999, Brähmer was signed by Universum Box-Promotion and his professional debut took place on December 11, 1999 in Hamburg . He first boxed in the super middleweight division. In his 24th professional fight on October 12, 2002, he won the WBC International title. Subsequently, his career was suspended for three years due to a prison sentence. His successful comeback after his release took place on October 15, 2005. On February 4, 2006, Brähmer succeeded in winning the WBC International title again by winning points against the South African Andre Thysse.

On May 27, 2006 Brähmer met his stable colleague Mario Veit . Although he managed to knock down in the first round, he was unexpectedly defeated by Veit on points. In his next fight he defeated the Argentine Francisco Antonio Mora by knockout in the eighth round. In May 2007 Brähmer won the WBO Intercontinental Super Middleweight Title against Héctor Velazco , but had to go down in this fight in the sixth round for the first time in his professional career. Then he went to a rematch against Mario Veit in Rostock on September 15, 2007 and was able to retaliate for the defeat the year before with a knockout success in the fourth round.

After this fight, Brähmer switched from super middleweight to light heavyweight. He won his first fight in the higher weight class in April 2008 against Karim Bennama. In his second light heavyweight fight, a world championship fight was made possible for him; he went on November 22, 2008 in Rostock against the WBA title holder Hugo Hernán Garay from Argentina, but lost over twelve rounds on points.

In his next fight on March 7, 2009 in Dresden, Brähmer boxed against Rachid Kanfouah for the vacant European championship in light heavyweight. He won by technical knockout in the fifth round after the fight was stopped by the referee due to Kanfouah's left eye being completely swollen. Brähmer defended the title with a first-round K. o. against the Italian Antonio Brancalion, before he laid down his belt to box against Aleksy Kuziemski, who was also under contract with Universum-Box-Promotion, on August 22, 2009 in Budapest for the interim world championships of the WBO Association. Brähmer won against the Pole with a technical knockout in the eleventh round and thus acquired the right to compete against the long-time WBO world champion Zsolt Erdei .

On November 13, 2009 Brähmer became the official WBO light heavyweight world champion without a fight, as the previous WBO world champion Erdei, also under contract with Universum, resigned the title and thus avoided a stable duel. He successfully defended the world title for the first time on December 19, 2009 in Schwerin against Russian Dimitri Suchotski. His second title defense he completed against the Argentine Mariano Plotinsky, whom he defeated by a technical knockout in the fifth round.

Another voluntary defense of the WBO title against Romanian Alexandro Lakatos, planned for June 2010, was canceled by Brähmer due to a back injury. Then he should compete on January 8, 2011 against the reigning WBA world champion Beibut Schumenow in Schymkent to a title union. But he also canceled this duel four days before the match due to a gastrointestinal disease. Then the WBO ordered a compulsory defense of their title against the British interim world champion Nathan Cleverly . The first scheduled appointment on April 2 in London was initially postponed to May 21, 2011, but finally canceled by Brähmer on May 18, 2011. The reason given was a laceration on the eyelid sustained during training. Thereupon he was stripped of his world title by the WBO and Cleverly named WBO world champion. Brähmer then paused until his fight on January 28, 2012 against the Spaniard José María Guerrero in Hamburg. He won the fight by technical knockout after the fight was stopped due to a laceration and a swollen eye in Guerrero. The next fight he played on April 21, 2012 in Schwerin against Vikapita Meroro. He won the ten-round bout unanimously on points (97-92, 98-91, 98-91).

In August 2012, Brähmer left the Universum boxing stable in Hamburg and signed a contract with Sauerland Event GmbH in Berlin . The new coach there was his dream coach Karsten Röwer .

On February 2, 2013, he became the new European light heavyweight champion with a unanimous score against Eduard Gutknecht ; on April 27, 2013 he defended his title with a knockout victory in the second round against the Frenchman Tony Averlant.

On December 15, 2013, Brähmer won the vacant regular world title of the WBA after the unanimous verdict of the three judges against Marcus Oliveira . On April 5, 2014, he successfully defended the title against the British Enzo Maccarinelli , who had to give up the fight prematurely before the start of the 6th round due to an eye injury (TKO). Two months later he was able to defend his title against the Argentine Roberto Bolonti after a unanimous judgment. His next challenger, the Pole Pawel Glazewski also had no chance against him, because Brähmer won this fight by knockout in the first round.

His next title defense rose on March 21, 2015 against Robin Krasniqi , who Brähmer won by giving up his opponent in the 10th round. In his next German duel, he met Konni Konrad on September 5, 2015; Brähmer also won this fight by giving up his opponent in the 8th round. In another German duel on March 12, 2016, he again defeated his former Universum team-mate Eduard Gutknecht on points in revenge .

On April 29, 2016 he announced the separation from his previous trainer Karsten Röwer , the new trainer was Conny Mittermeier .

In his title defense on October 1, 2016, he lost the long-awaited duel against the Briton Nathan Cleverly . Brähmer had to stop the fight due to an arm injury.

To participate in the World Boxing Super Series , Brähmer switched from light heavyweight back to his former weight class in super middleweight. On October 27, 2017, in Schwerin, he met the American Robert Brant in the quarter-finals , whom he defeated with a unanimous victory on points. He had to cancel the semi-finals in February 2018 due to a flu-like infection; he was replaced by Nieky Holzken .

On April 21, 2018, Brähmer announced the end of its collaboration with Sauerland Event . The reason is said to have been a lack of communication, lack of support and failure to comply with agreements.

At the same time, he and his protégé and WBA super middleweight world champion Tyron Zeuge founded the JB German Sports promotion company based in Schwerin. In his first fight under his own boxing stable, he competed on December 15, 2018 under his former trainer Michael Timm in the sports hall in Hamburg against the Argentine Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas. He won this fight by TKO in the 5th round. On June 15, 2019, he met Erdogan Kadrija in the sports and congress hall in Schwerin, he also won this fight through TKO in the 2nd round. At the Hamburg Cruise Center Altona , he met his compatriot Jürgen Doberstein on December 21, 2019 .

List of professional fights

year	Day	place	Opponent / target	Result for Brähmer
1999	11th December	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Ramdane Kaouane	Points win (4 rounds)
2000	February 5th	Rhein-Ruhr-Halle , Duisburg, Germany	Ferousa Ilunga	Victory / KO 1st round
	March 11	Hansehalle , Lübeck, Germany	Ramdane Kaouane	Victory / KO 2nd round
	March 18th	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Zsolt Janko	Victory / TKO 1st round
	April 1st	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukoelln, Germany	Robert Davis	Victory / KO 2nd round
	April 15th	Preussag Arena , Hanover, Germany	Antonio Ribeiro	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	May 6th	Swissotel, Neuss, Germany	Mario Lupp	Victory / KO 1st round
	28th of May	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Vedran Akrap	Points win (6 rounds)
	October 1	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Jason Collins	Victory / KO 1st round
	October 14th	Kölnarena , Cologne, Germany	Marino Monteyne	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	25. November	Preussag Arena , Hanover, Germany	Domenico Alfano	Victory / TKO 1st round
	December 5th	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Jerry Williams	Points win (6 rounds)
2001	February 10th	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukoelln, Germany	Pat Lawlor	Victory / TKO 1st round
	February 24th	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Patrik Swann	Victory / TKO 5th round
	March 24th	Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle , Munich, Germany	Rob Bleakley	Victory / TKO 4th round
	7th of April	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Juan Carlos Viloria	Victory / TKO 5th round
	5th of May	Volkswagenhalle , Braunschweig, Germany	George Klinesmith	Victory / KO 1st round
	July 28th	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukoelln, Germany	Tony Menefee	Victory / TKO 1st round
	September 29th	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Rudi Lupo	Victory / KO 2nd round
	November 24th	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Ray Domenge	Victory / KO 3rd round
	15th December	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukoelln, Germany	Mike Coker	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2002	March 16	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle , Stuttgart, Germany	Roberto Martins	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	April 6th	Universum-Gym, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Germany	Francisco Lares	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 12th	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Omar Eduardo Gonzalez vacant WBC International Championship	Points win (12 rounds)
2005	15th October	Multipurpose hall south, Düsseldorf, Germany	Roman Aramian	Victory / TKO 6th round
	November 26th	Wilhelm-Dopatka-Rundsportalle , Leverkusen, Germany	Henry Porras	Victory / TKO 7th round
2006	February 4th	Burg-Wächter Castello , Düsseldorf, Germany	Andre Thysse	Points win (12 rounds)
	May 27th	Kulturhalle Zenith, Munich, Germany	Mario Veit vacant WBC International Championship	Point defeat (12 rounds)
	28th of October	Porsche-Arena , Stuttgart, Germany	Francisco Antonio Mora	Victory / KO 8th round
2007	May 19th	Color Line Arena , Hamburg, Germany	Héctor Velazco vacant WBO Intercontinental Championship	Points win (12 rounds)
	September 15th	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Mario Veit vacant WBO Intercontinental title defense	Victory / KO 4th round
2008	April 5th	Burg-Wächter Castello , Düsseldorf, Germany	Karim Bennama	Victory / TKO 9th round
	22nd of November	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Hugo Hernán Garay WBA World Championship	Point defeat (12 rounds)
2009	7th March	Freiberger Arena , Dresden, Germany	Rachid Kanfouah vacant EBU European Championship	Victory / TKO 5th round
	6th of June	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena , Oberhausen, Germany	Antonio Brancalion EBU title defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
	August 22nd	SYMA Sport & Leisure Center, Budapest, Hungary	Aleksy Kuziemski WBO Interim Championship	Victory / TKO 11th round
	19. December	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Dimitri Suchotski WBO title defense	Points win (12 rounds)
2010	April 24th	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Mariano Plotinsky WBO title defense	Victory / TKO 5th round
2012	January 28th	Hotel Grand Elysee, Hamburg, Germany	José María Guerrero	Victory / TKO 4th round
	April 21	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Vicapita Meroro	Points win (12 rounds)
2013	February 2nd	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin, Germany	Eduard Gutknecht EBU European Championship	Points win (12 rounds)
	April 27	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Tony Averlant EBU title defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
	August 25	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Stefano Abatangelo EBU title defense	Points win (12 rounds)
	December 14th	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg, Germany	Marcus Oliveira EBU title defense	Points win (12 rounds)
2014	April 5th	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Enzo Maccarinelli WBA World Championship	Victory / abandonment 5th / 6th round
	June 7th	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Roberto Bolonti WBA title defense	Points win (12 rounds)
	6th of December	EWE Arena , Oldenburg, Germany	Pawel Glazewski WBA title defense	Victory / KO 1st round
2015	March 21st	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Robin Krasniqi WBA title defense	Victory / abandon 10th round
	5th September	EnergieVerbund Arena , Dresden, Germany	Konni Konrad WBA title defense	Victory / abandonment 8th round
2016	March 12th	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg, Germany	Eduard Gutknecht WBA title defense	Points win (12 rounds)
	October 1	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg, Germany	Nathan Cleverly WBA title defense	Loss / TKO 6th round
2017	October 27	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Robert Brant World Boxing Super Series Quarter Finals	Points win (12 rounds)
2018	15th December	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas	Victory / TKO 5th round
2019	15th June	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Erdogan Kadrija	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	21st December	Hamburg Cruise Center Altona , Hamburg, Germany	Jürgen Doberstein	Victory / KO 7th round
Source: Jürgen Brähmer in the BoxRec database

Coaching career

From April 2016 to June 2019, Brähmer coached Tyron Zeuge , who became WBA super middleweight champion on November 5, 2016 . Since April 2019 he has been the trainer of former WBO / WBC middleweight world champion Christina Hammer .

Others

Brähmer was born into a large family; he is a trained welder. In 1998 he came into conflict with the law for the first time and was sentenced to three and a half years youth imprisonment by the Schwerin juvenile lay judge's court for joint robbery and serious bodily harm . In 2002, Brähmer again committed a criminal offense when he caused a traffic accident in Hamburg at the beginning of September while driving without a driver's license. When the other party in the accident wanted to call the police , Brähmer knocked him unconscious and fled the accident . For the WBC Intercontinental title fight on October 12, 2002, he was released from custody for three days with a 125,000 euro bail . This was followed by a renewed conviction of a further two years and six months in prison, some of which he served in the Bützow JVA until he was released prematurely on probation with a residual sentence .

In December 2007, a new charge was added, since in June 2006 Brähmer allegedly hit a man in the face with the flat of his hand who was tampering with his car. The boxer was acquitted after about thirty minutes of trial. Further abnormalities followed. In May 2008, Brähmer injured a man during an argument in a bar in Schwerin. The injured party withdrew the criminal complaint he had initially filed , but the public prosecutor's office continued to investigate for the time being because they assumed that there was a particular public interest in prosecuting the offense, which - if they had been proven - would have been committed during the probationary period. In January 2009, Brähmer was charged again with assault; allegedly on September 13, 2008, also in a Schwerin bar, he hit a woman and seriously injured her face. For this he was sentenced by the Schwerin District Court on January 12, 2010 to a prison term of 16 months without parole. Both Brähmers lawyers and the prosecution appealed against the judgment calling a. In the appeal hearing before the Schwerin district court, the proceedings were discontinued on March 29, 2011, subject to a payment of 5000 euros to a youth welfare organization, as the acts accused of Brähmer “are unlikely to be proven”. Brähmer is now taking legal action against designations such as "prison boxer".

He supports a PPP project in the Fuhlsbüttel correctional facility . Goods are manufactured there under the Santa Fu brand, some of the proceeds going to the victim protection organization Weißer Ring .

Web links

• Jürgen Brähmer in the BoxRec database
• Official website of Jürgen Brähmer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Brähmer world champion again. ( Memento from April 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: sportschau.de , December 15, 2013.
2. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Brähmer and Zbik with great victories in Schwerin. Universe boxing promotion, December 20, 2009.
3. ↑ Big title union: Jürgen Brähmer will box for two belts on January 8th! ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Universum Box Promotion, December 8, 2010.
4. ↑ World champion Jürgen Brähmer leaves Kazakhstan due to illness. ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Universum Box-Promotion, January 4, 2011.
5. ↑ Brähmer loses his world title after another cancellation. ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) abendblatt.de, May 19, 2011.
6. ↑ Ex-world champion Brähmer will box for the Berlin team in future. In: Berliner Morgenpost . August 25, 2012.
7. ↑ Jürgen Brähmer loses world title to Nathan Cleverly. T-Mobile, October 1, 2016.
8. ↑ Boxing hammer! Brähmer leaves Sauerland Bild.de, April 21, 2018.
9. ↑ Brähmer versus prison guards. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Sportschau online, accessed on June 6, 2014, 11 p.m.

predecessor	Office	successor
Zsolt Erdei	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) November 13, 2009 - May 18, 2011	Nathan Cleverly
Beibut Shumenov	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) December 14, 2013 - October 1, 2016	Nathan Cleverly