Laurent Dauthuille

Laurent Dauthuille
Data
Birth Name	Laurent Dauthuille
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Frenchman
birthday	February 20, 1924
place of birth	Chaumont, France
Date of death	July 10, 1971
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.66 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	62
Victories	45
Knockout victories	24
Defeats	13
draw	4th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Laurent Dauthuille (born February 20, 1924 in Chaumont, France , † July 10, 1971 ) was a French boxer .

Career

Laurent Dauthuille grew up in the Paris suburb of Buzenval and started boxing there as a teenager . His greatest success as an amateur was winning the 1944 French welterweight championship. On September 17, 1944, he fought his first fight as a professional boxer. He defeated it in Paris Leon Thiebault in the 2nd round by techn. KO. Within a year, Laurent Dauthuille had fought his way up the professional boxer scene to such an extent that he appeared in the European rankings for the first time in mid-1946 among the ten best boxers in the middleweight division. This was primarily due to his knockout victory in the 2nd round over Assane Diouf on November 4, 1945 in Paris and his knockout victory in the 3rd round over the Dutchman Luc van Dam on April 9, 1946 in Paris. By the autumn of 1947 he had fought 27 fights, of which he lost only two. In the meantime he had been nicknamed "Tarzan von Buzenval".

On October 27, 1947 Laurent Dauthuille then lost in Paris to Robert Villemain on points. This defeat was followed by another point defeat against Belgian Cyrille Delannoit on January 24, 1947 in Brussels . A month later, on February 28, 1948, he lost again to Delannoit on points and finally he lost on May 14, 1948 in Paris also the revenge against Robert Villemain on points. The aim of these fights was to determine the challenger for the reigning European champion Marcel Cerdan . Robert Villemain prevailed.

After another defeat against the Italian champion Tiberio Mitri on October 22, 1948 in Paris, Laurent Dauthuille saw no more chances to stay in Europe in the big boxing business and went to Canada , where John Crombeck became his new manager. On December 6, 1948 he fought for the first time in Montreal and defeated the Canadian Pete Zaduk after 10 rounds on points. On February 21, 1949, he succeeded in Montreal a sensational victory over the world number one middleweight, the American Jake LaMotta . The verdict of the three judges was unanimous and superior for Laurent Dauthuille. He suffered a setback on November 21, 1949 in Montreal when he lost to Cuban Kid Gavilán after 10 rounds by unanimous decision. But that Kid Gavilán was an excellent man, he proved a little later when he became world champion in the welterweight division.

Laurent Dauthuille made up for this defeat at the beginning of 1950 with victories over the ranking boxers Charley Zivic, Steve Belloise and the Portorican Tuzo Portoguez . On September 13, 1950, he therefore got the chance in Detroit to box against Jake LaMotta for the world middleweight championship, who had since become the successor of world champion Marcel Cerdan, who had died in a plane crash. In this fight, Laurent Dauthuille led up to a few seconds of the fight scheduled for 15 rounds on the slips of all three judges by points, when LaMotta managed a lucky stroke with which he won the fight by knockout 13 seconds before the end.

After this defeat Laurent Dauthuille fought alternately in Europe and Canada. On June 9, 1951, he scored a well-deserved draw against Robert Villemain in Paris and beat the American George Hairston on points on August 22, 1951 in Montreal . On April 21, 1952, he had in Paris against Charles Humez accept a point defeat, and on 17 November 1952 he finally denied the last fight in his boxers career who with a technical knockout loss in the second round against his French countryman Mickey Laurent ended .

Although Laurent Dauthuille never won a championship title in his professional career, he was undoubtedly one of the best middleweights in the world in 1949 and 1950. Ultimately, he was only 13 seconds short of winning the world title.

Laurent Dauthuille, who lived in Paris after his boxing career, died at the age of 47.

literature

• Box Sport magazine

Web links

• Laurent Dauthuille in the BoxRec database