Jean Sneyers

Jean Sneyers
Data
Birth Name	Jean Sneyers
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	Belgian
birthday	August 11, 1927
place of birth	Mulhouse, Belgium
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	88
Victories	70
Knockout victories	22nd
Defeats	13
draw	5

Jean Sneyers (born August 11, 1927 in Mulhouse, Belgium ) is a former Belgian boxer of Flemish origin. He was the European champion of professional boxers in fly , bantam and featherweight .

Career

Like most good professional boxers, Jean Sneyers, who started boxing as a teenager during World War II, was already a good amateur boxer. It is known from this time that he was the Belgian junior flyweight champion in 1945 and the Belgian flyweight champion in the seniors (from the age of 18) in 1947.

Jean Sneyers became a professional boxer in 1947. He fought his first fight on October 13, 1947 in Brussels . He won against his compatriot Gaston de Riemacher by technical knockout in the fourth round. He also won the next development battles, all of which took place in Belgium . On October 27, 1948, he fought abroad for the first time. In Dundee he had to accept his first defeat as a professional against the Scots Norman Tennant, who was Scottish flyweight champion in his next fight, so was not a bad boxer.

On November 19, 1949, Jean Sneyers won his first victory over a top European boxer in Brussels. He beat the French Maurice Sandeyron on points and with this victory settled at the top of the European boxing list of flyweights. He suffered a flyweight defeat against British champion Peter Keenan (boxer) in London on March 7, 1950 , but through victories in the next few months over the French Louis Skenna and Guy Jousseau and the Italian Otello Belardinelli he fought for the right to challenge to the European flyweight champion, Terry Allen (boxer) from England .

The fight between Jean Sneyers and Terry Allen took place on October 30, 1950 at the Rubens Palace in Antwerp . Jean Sneyers won this fight after 15 rounds on points and was the new European flyweight champion. From then on, his Belgian compatriots had taken him into their hearts and he was given the honorary name "Angel of the Ring".

Just 14 days later, on November 11, 1950, Jean Sneyers successfully defended this title with a technical knockout victory in the third round over the Frenchman Honore Pratesi . After this encounter he gave up his European flyweight title without a fight because he had weight problems and wanted to box in bantamweight in the future. He was also very successful in this weight class. He won 1951/52 a. a. about Emile Chemama and again Maurice Sandeyron, both from France and Dante Bini from Italy and fought against Ray Famechon from France in a draw. On May 21, 1952, Jean Sneyers was then in Glasgow by a knockout victory in the fifth round over Peter Keenan also European bantamweight champion.

In December 1952, Jean Sneyers gave back the bantamweight title without a fight, as he boxed in the future featherweight. On January 17, 1953, he lost in this weight class in Brussels against Ray Famechon on points and was defeated on February 23, 1953 in the Palais des Sports in Paris, the upcoming French bantamweight world champion Robert Cohen on points, against whom he was four weeks later in the Revenge in Brussels won a draw. On October 17, 1953, Jean Sneyers then won at the Palais des Sports in Brussels by winning points after 15 rounds over his old rival Ray Famechon for the third time a European championship title, this time in featherweight. On February 16, 1954, he successfully defended this title in London against the Northern Irishman Sammy McCarthy , whom he defeated after 15 rounds on points.

On September 20, 1954, Jean Sneyers lost the European featherweight title in Paris by a technical knockout defeat in the third round to Ray Famechon. Attempts to regain this title failed on January 20, 1957 in Paris, when he against Cherif Hamia on points and on August 18, 1958 in San Remo , when he lost to the Italian Sergio Caprari by technical knockout in the eleventh round.

Jean Sneyers celebrated notable victories in non-title fights in the last years of his career over the later world featherweight champion, the Nigerian Hogan "Kid" Bassey , whom he beat and over on October 20, 1956 in Liège by technical knockout in the fourth round his up-and-coming compatriot Pierre Cossemyns , whom he defeated on points in Brussels on May 22, 1957. On December 5, 1959, Jean Sneyers ended his long and successful career in Gent with a points victory over the Frenchman Edouard Ptak , in which he proved that he was rightly entitled to the honorary name "Angel of the Ring".

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• Box Sport trade journal from 1950 to 1958

Web links

• Jean Sneyers in the BoxRec database