MTK Boxing Aachen
The MTK Boxing Aachen is a boxing club that emerged from an integration project for poorer young people in Aachen .
history
The MTK boxing Aachen was founded in 2000. Originally it was a boxing company, which the former international German heavyweight champion Mario Guedes , in the Josefshaus, a youth day care center of the parish of St. Josef, together with the Head of the facility, Richard Okon , had launched. Initially, only recreational activities through sport were considered. The aim was to give poor young people a certain sporting basis. However, the AG's popularity and success were so great that Guedes soon decided to found the MTK association in the middle of Aachen's social hotspot, the East Quarter . MTK Boxing Aachen sees itself as a multicultural club with the aim of doing justice not only to sport and performance, but also to the integration of young people. Mario Guedes has also been the 1st chairman and head coach of MTK Boxing Aachen since it was founded. Since 2005 he has been assisting him with the former Polish junior national trainer Leo Mazcka .
"Boxing instead of street" project
At the same time as the association was founded, the “Boxing instead of street” project was started. The project aims to help young people in particular to gain perspective through sport and to spend their time meaningfully. The project has now received financial support from the city of Aachen, the Sparkasse Aachen and the Egidius Braun Foundation of the DFB . Former top boxers, artists and Aachen business people are also patrons and sponsors of the association and its activities.
The tournament for the "open Aachen city championship", which was launched by MTK Aachen in 2002, is already an integral part of the boxing event calendar. It takes place every year in December and was held for the fifth time in 2006. The group of participants is increasingly international.
expansion
In 2004 the first "branch" of MTK boxing was opened in Koblenz . With the West German title, Agwan Alvrtsjan is the outstanding athlete from Koblenz so far. The trainer in Koblenz is the professional trainer Detlef Loritz . The third and fourth departments were added in 2006. First in January in Düren under the direction of the brothers Karl-Heinz Diezel and Ralf Diezel , who were both very successful amateur boxers in the 1980s. You regularly look after 12–20 young boxers in Düren.
successes
In the year it was founded, two MTK athletes made it to the finals of the German championships. Alex Mertin came fifth, Arthur Schäfer third. Until 2006, MTK Aachen members fought for themselves in the various championships: 13 Middle Rhine championship titles, 8 West German, three German and two German runner-up titles. 2006 was the most successful year in sporting terms, with the German junior super heavyweight champion Marven Lennertz , the German light middleweight champion Jessica Balogun , the German vice heavyweight champion Gleb Chuzin and five other national championships, including Denis Sterl-Guedes and Mario Weyer- Guedes .
Such successful athletes as the German university champion and middleweight league boxer , Ommid Mostaghim , have switched to the professional boxing camp with the support of the club and its managers. He was followed by the heavyweight Dirk Mandelartz ("the Alemanne"), the semi- heavy Andreas Reichelt and super middleweight Tanju Günes. All these former MTK Aachen athletes are now under contract with the Pound 4 Pound Box Promotion Aachen .
At the beginning of 2008, Jessica Balogun followed the call of her long-time trainer and discoverer Mario Guedes and moved to the boxing stable of Pound 4 Pound Boxpromotion Aachen . Already in her 6th professional fight on June 7th, 2008 Jessica became world champion in the super welterweight version of the WFC World Fight Club .