Klaus Niketta

Klaus Niketta (born October 8, 1963 in Berlin ) is a former German boxer. He fought in the weight classes flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight and light welterweight. The left boom has a size of 1.75 m.

Career

Klaus Niketta learned boxing at the SV Berlin police in 1977. In 1979 he switched to the Neuköllner Sportfreunde . Other clubs were Tennis Borussia Berlin and Sparta 58 Berlin. Klaus Niketta inherited his boxing talent from his father Klaus Niketta (born June 28, 1941 - † July 3, 2008), who was Berlin champion several times and German team champion with PSV Berlin in 1970 and was also in the ring for the German national team.

1981/82

Niketta was declared senior early in 1981 at the age of 17 so that he could start in the Bundesliga team for the Berlin boxing ring. In 1981 Niketta became German champion twice in one year. For the first time in the juniors on June 20, 1981 in Berlin in the flyweight (together with Graciano and Ralf Rocchigiani , who are friends with Niketta since 1977), and the second time in the seniors on November 21, 1981 in Hanau again in the flyweight. Klaus Niketta, needed 3.46 minutes for all three wins at the German Senior Championships. All three fights were prematurely stopped by the referee (RSC). Niketta is one of the few boxers who were able to achieve these two German championship titles (juniors + seniors) in one year. In the Bundesliga season 1981/82 on January 31, 1982 Niketta defeated Harald Körper (German champion 1978) who boxed for Korbach.

On September 10, 1982 Klaus Niketta won the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships (bantamweight) in Schwerin (GDR). Loss of points in the semi-finals against Russian Oleg Kulagin.

1983

On September 13, 1983, Klaus Niketta was part of the pre-Olympic squad (1984 Los Angeles) in the USA with two fights.

• 1st fight in Wilmington / Delaware on September 13, 1983
• 2nd fight in Lake Placid on September 16, 1983.

On November 19, 1983, Klaus Niketta was German featherweight champion in Cologne.

1984-1987

He had a stay at the professional boxing stable (Berlin, Klaus Speer ), including a six-week stay with his friend and trainer Eckhard Dagge in Los Angeles. In Broadway Gym 108 Niketta was trained by Henry Davis, who led Eckhard Dagge to the world championship. After returning from Los Angeles, the professional preliminary contract was terminated due to disagreements with management and the established professional debut match was canceled. Klaus Niketta returned to the amateurs and came third in the 1985 German championship. He lost in the semifinals against Hainzer from Bavaria controversially 3-2 on points.

In 1986 he drove to the World Championship in Reno (USA). Niketta lost the first fight on points against Andreas Zülow (GDR, World Cup third, Olympic champion). On July 1st, 1986 he moved to Ahlen / Westphalia and lives here with his family. He signed a contract with the Bundesliga club BSK Ahlen, which had signed him. Klaus Niketta was German champion again in 1986 in Bochum. But he was not allowed to box in the Bundesliga for the BSK Ahlen for the first six fights because the Berlin Boxing Association had banned him. In the last instance, Klaus Niketta received his clearance from the sports court. With his four fights won, he contributed to winning the First German Team Championship for the BSK Ahlen in the 1986/87 season.

In April 1987, Klaus Niketta won the bronze medal at the Inter Cup. Niketta lost in the semifinals against the No. 1 of Cuba, Juan Sierra Hernandez, on points. After only one season in Ahlen, Klaus Niketta tries to move to Leonberg. After eight weeks of staying in a hotel in Leonberg and eight weeks of training in the René Weller Gym in Pforzheim, Niketta returned to Ahlen because the board of directors of BC Leonberg had not kept the agreements made. Niketta won the later trial before the Stuttgart district court against the BC Leonberg for failure to keep contractual agreements. So Niketta was able to start again immediately for his old club BSK Ahlen in the Bundesliga.

1988-1992

In the 1987/88 season Niketta managed only the German team runner-up with the BSK Ahlen. The highlight of this season was the fight against Mirco Puzovic in Leonberg on January 23, 1988. Niketta beat Puzovic (bronze, Olympic champion in Los Angeles 1984, world champion, European champion) in Leonberg by points (the referee saved Puzovic from premature defeat).

A week later the next tough fight followed in the 1987/88 Bundesliga season for Niketta. He beat Rainer Gies on points in the light welterweight division. Niketta fought two weight classes higher in the light welterweight this season. In 1988, Klaus Niketta was only German runner-up at the German championship in Schriesheim after a controversial point judgment (3-2 point defeat against Pissedu). In return, Niketta was German team champion with BSK Ahlen in the 1988/89 season.

In 1989 Klaus Niketta ended his international career for the German national team with a fifth place (point defeat against Ricardo Diaz Cuba) at the "Giraldo Cordova Cardin" tournament in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. This tournament was considered the most difficult tournament in the world, where only Cubans faced each other in the final. In the Bundesliga season 1989/90 Niketta beat the 1988 Olympic silver medalist for Romania (Seoul), Daniel Dumitrescu (Kurz), who boxed for Bayer Leverkusen , on points. In 1991 Klaus Niketta won third place at the German championships in Cologne against Marco Rudolph (after a narrow point defeat).

In the Bundesliga season 1991/92, BSK Ahlen met the Schwerin team three times by qualifying for the final round of the last four teams for the German team championship. Niketta met Heiko Hinz (GDR champion) three times and clearly beat Hinz three times on points. Hinz was defeated twice by Niketta in Schwerin. Niketta once defeated Heiko Hinz in front of a home crowd in Ahlen.

After the Bundesliga season 1991/92 Klaus Niketta ended his career as a boxer and resigned unbeaten with ten wins in the lightweight.

Others

Klaus Niketta was a sponsored athlete of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation and is now in the club of the former sponsored Sporthilfe Athletes (Emadeus). He played on celebrity soccer teams for charity:

• Tennis Borussia Berlin (with Hans Rosenthal and Wolfgang Gruner ).
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk, RTL Telekicker, Westpromis, MSV Duisburg and Rocky's All Star Team.

1985 Niketta trained for six months with the football team Tennis Borussia in Berlin. He also played for the upper league reserve team from Makkabi Berlin. From 1987 to 1989 Niketta played soccer in the national league for TuS Ahlen . For charitable purposes, Niketta still goes into the ring for exhibition matches with long-time boxing friends the Schäfer brothers, Willi Fischer and René Weller .

Trainer

Klaus Niketta, Gunnar Münchow, Heinz Schnabel, Gerd Bauer, Herbert Sonnenberg, Michael Emmerich, Heinz Schwarz, Gerhard Bubi Dieter, Hans Hoth, Eckhard Dagge , Henry Davis, Dieter Wemhöner , Helmut Ranze, Reinhard Skriczek, René Weller , Harri Salewski, Günter Radowski.

Sporting successes

• 1981 Berlin Junior Flyweight Champion
• 1981 North German Junior Flyweight Champion
• 1981 (Berlin) German junior flyweight champion
• 1982, 1983, 1985 Berlin champions, bantam and featherweight
• 1982, 1983 North German champion, bantam and featherweight
• 1986, 1988, 1991 Westphalian featherweight light welterweight champion
• 1986, 1991 West German champion in featherweight lightweight
• 1982, 1985, 1991 third in the German championship bantam feather lightweight
• 1988 German runner-up light welterweight
• 1981, 1983, 1986 German flyweight champion, featherweight
• 1982 bronze medal winner at the Junior European Bantamweight Championships (in Schwerin GDR)
• 1986 World Championship participant (Reno, USA)
• 1986/87 German team champion in the 1st Bundesliga featherweight division (BSK Ahlen)
• 1987/88 German team runner-up, 1st Bundesliga light welterweight division (BSK Ahlen)
• 1988/89 German team champion 1st Bundesliga light and light welterweight division (BSK Ahlen)
• 1991/92 1 Bundesliga Klaus Niketta ends his active career as a boxer and retires unbeaten in 10 Bundesliga fights in the lightweight division.

Niketta boxed for 12 years in the 1st Bundesliga and during this time she had 40 appearances for the German national team (World Cup, European Championship, international matches and international tournaments).

literature

• Box Sport trade journal from 1977 to 1993.
• BOX ALMANACH 1920 - 2005 . Editor of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980.