Jupp Elze

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Jupp Elze boxer
Data
Birth Name Josef Elze
Weight class medium weight
nationality GermanyGermany German
birthday December 14, 1939
place of birth Cologne
Date of death June 20, 1968
Place of death Cologne
Combat Statistics
Struggles 42
Victories 34
Knockout victories 18th
Defeats 6th
draw 2

Josef (Jupp) Elze (* 14. December 1939 in Cologne , † 20 June 1968 ) was a German professional boxer in the middleweight division.

career

His professional career began in September 1961 in the Cologne ice stadium with a knockout victory over Peter Faust. On May 30, 1964, he defeated, also in Cologne, in his eighteenth professional fight Manfred Hass and thus became German middleweight champion. In May 1966 he competed in Berlin against Nino Benvenuti for the European Championship, but lost by technical knockout in the fourteenth round.

In front of 25,000 spectators, he defended his German championship title against Peter “de Aap” Müller on September 2, 1966 in the Müngersdorfer Stadium . Already in the second round Elze decided the fight against his challenger by knockout. Müller ended his professional career after this fight. The following year Elze was able to successfully defend his German championship belt against Horst Wieczorek with a knockout win in the seventh round.

On June 12, 1968 Elze made the second attempt to become European middleweight champion. He rose against Juan Carlos Duran in the ring, whom he had previously defeated on points in April 1965. In the fifteenth round, Jupp Elze was hit in the back of the head and went down. Shortly after he got up and signaled his task, he passed out and fell into a coma. Despite an immediate emergency operation on the brain, Elze died eight days later of a cerebral hemorrhage in the university clinic in Cologne-Lindenthal . An autopsy revealed that Jupp Elze had been doped with three different substances , including methamphetamine .

His manager at the time was Jean Löring . He went down in history primarily as the first German professional athlete to die of the effects of doping. His grave is in Cologne's Ostfriedhof .

Grave: Jupp Elze
family

Josef Elze had been with Helga, born on December 15, 1965. Zündorf married.

Success as a professional

  • 1964–1967: German champion (middleweight)
  • 41 fights, including 34 wins (18 by knockout), 2 draws and 5 defeats

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Landesarchiv NRW, civil status archive Rhineland, registry office Cologne-West, deaths 1968, document No. 2140.
  2. Ringtod - sloshing porridge . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1968, pp. 96 ( Online - June 24, 1968 ). Quote: "157 seconds separated the boxer from the European Championship."
  3. Professional boxes - view of the cemetery . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1969, p. 116-118 ( Online - Mar. 17, 1969 ). Quote: "In the fight for the European Championship, the German middleweight champion Josef Elze sustained fatal injuries. Later the autopsy showed that he had been doped with Pervitin."