Jupp Besselmann

Jupp Besselmann
Data
Birth Name	Josef Besselmann
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	German
birthday	November 21, 1909
place of birth	Paderborn
Date of death	May 26, 1983
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	118
Victories	96
Knockout victories	59
Defeats	9
draw	12
Profile in the BoxRec database

Josef "Jupp" Besselmann (born November 21, 1909 in Paderborn ; † May 26, 1983 ) was a German boxer . He was European champion in amateur and professional boxers.

Career

Amateur career

Jupp Besselmann was a member of SC Colonia 06 , which was the most successful German amateur boxing club around 1930. There he was trained to be an excellent boxer by head coach Ludwig Neecke. In 1930 he became German welterweight champion with a victory over the Munich Muysers at the age of 20. In the same year he was also European welterweight champion in Budapest with a final victory over the Poland Witold Majchrzycki. With this victory, Jupp Besselmann was the fourth European champion that Ludwig Neecke produced at SC "Colonia" from 1927 to 1930. The other three were Jakob Domgörgen , Franz Dübbers and Hein Müller .

Profile career

Shortly after winning the European title, Jupp Besselmann joined the professional boxers. He played his first fight on October 10, 1930 in Mainz and won by knockout in the first round over the Belgian Eloy. In the following two years Jupp Besselmann remained undefeated in 24 fights. On September 10, 1932, he then boxed in Dortmund against the German welterweight champion Gustav Eder for his title. Jupp Besselmann gave Gustav Eder an even fight that ended in a draw, making Eder the title holder.

On August 5, 1933, there was a revenge fight with Gustav Eder in Dortmund, who won this fight by knockout in the 6th round. Jupp Besselmann then switched to the middleweight division to avoid the constant exhausting weight making for the welterweight division. In his new weight class he fought on October 5, 1934 in Berlin with Fred Boelck from Hamburg for the German championship. Jupp Besselmann won over 12 rounds on points and was thus German middleweight champion. On February 8, 1935, he defended this title for the first time with a knockout victory in the 8th round over Erwin Bruch .

After winning points on April 6, 1935 in Cologne over Hein Domgörgen , Jupp Besselmann successfully defended his German championship title three times from 1935 to 1937 against Fred Boelck, Walter Müller and Erwin Bruch. On January 21, 1938, Jupp Besselmann then got the chance to fight the experienced Belgian Gustave Roth for the IBU World Championship and the EBU European Championship in the light heavyweight division in the Sportpalast in Berlin . The super technician Roth knew how to skillfully keep puncher Besselmann at bay and therefore won after 15 rounds on points. After this first unsuccessful attempt Jupp Besselmann started on April 7, 1938 in Berlin a second attempt to win these two titles, but this time in the middleweight division. But he failed again, because he was defeated by the Frenchman Edouard Tenet by technical knockout in the 12th round.

After a draw against the Dutch ex-European champion Bep van Klaveren on March 9, 1939 in Berlin, Jupp Besselmann defended his German middleweight title on April 16, 1940 in Berlin by successfully drawing against Gustav Eder and on November 3, 1940, back in Berlin, against the Viennese Hein Wiesner , whom he defeated on points after 12 rounds. On May 23, 1942, Jupp Besselmann won the European middleweight title by winning points after 15 rounds over Italian Mario Casadei in Stuttgart . Until the end of the war he only defended this title on January 20, 1942 in Hamburg by winning points after 15 rounds over the Dutchman Luc van Dam .

From mid-1947 to September 9, 1950, Jupp Besselmann fought 17 more fights, of which he lost only one. This was on September 3, 1949 in the Müngerdorfer Stadium in Cologne. Now 40 years old, he boxed in front of 25,000 spectators against the young Peter Müller from Cologne, to whom he lost on points after eight rounds. He fought his last professional fight on September 9, 1950 in Frankfurt and scored a knockout victory in the second round over the largely unknown Erich Wiskandt.

After his active time as a boxer, Jupp Besselmann passed on his wealth of experience to many other professional boxers whom he trained and looked after. The best known of them were Heinz Neuhaus , Peter Müller and Erich Schöppner .

literature

• Box Sport magazine

Web links

• Jupp Besselmann in the BoxRec database
• Jupp Besselmann in the BoxRec Encyclopaedia