Manfred Jassmann

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Manfred Jassmann boxer
Data
Birth Name Manfred Jassmann
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday July 6, 1952
place of birth Korbach
size 1.78 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 44
Victories 32
Knockout victories 19th
Defeats 10
draw 2

Manfred Jassmann (born July 6, 1952 in Korbach ) is a former German boxer.

amateur

Manfred Jassmann, son of a farmer, played 184 fights with 142 wins, 35 defeats and seven draws in his long amateur career. In 1980 he won the German middleweight championship. He took part in three amateur European championships: in 1977 in Halle , as well as in 1979 in Cologne, he failed in the first round, there against the Romanian Valentin Silaghi . At the EM in May 1981 in Tampere, he lost in the quarterfinals.

Professional career

A month later, on June 12, 1981, he made his professional debut at the age of 29. In 1982 he won the German light heavyweight championship against Uwe Meinicke .

On July 9, 1983, the boxer, supervised by Wilfried Sauerland as a promoter, competed in Frankfurt am Main against the Dutch European champion Rudy Koopmans . Koopmans, in whose corner of the ring the former world champion Eckhard Dagge temporarily jumped in as a second, knocked the German to the ground in the eighth round, until then, according to the judges, Jassmann had advantages, although he had sustained an eyebrow injury. In the fourth lap, the Dutchman wobbled. Jassmann then spoke of not having noticed until three that the referee counted him. “When two boxers hit hard, the knockout risk is high. This time I was the unlucky one, ”he said of his (amateur fights taken) first knockout loss. Jassmann received a purse of 40,000 D-Marks for the European Championship fight. He could not use the second European Championship chance in September 1984 against Alex Blanchard from the Netherlands, again he lost prematurely in the fourth round. One minute and 20 seconds before the end of the fourth round, Jassmann's trainer Uli Resties threw in the towel when his protégé was in distress. This decision caused a lack of understanding among Promoter Sauerland and experts at the Ring. Jassmann himself was of the opinion that he would have recovered from this difficult situation. Resties said he wanted to save his boxer from worse.

In December 1984 he defeated Ralf Rocchigiani in the fight for the German championship, in the 1985 rematch he defended his title with a draw. In October 1986 his challenger was his brother Graciano , to whom Jassmann lost his title on points.

In January 1987 he won the vacant German heavyweight championship against Werner Pelz . On April 22, 1987 he boxed against the Briton Sammy Reeson in London's Royal Albert Hall for the first ever European cruiserweight championship, but his third attempt at a European title was not successful. In the third duel with Ralf Rocchigiani, meanwhile German cruiserweight champion, he lost on points this time.

On December 17, 1988 he was allowed to fight for the European Championship for a fourth time, the defending champion in the heavyweight division was the Italian Francesco Damiani . However, Jassmann had no chance and lost by knockout in the third round.

In 1990 he then lost his German heavyweight title to Markus Bott and ended his career a little later.

successes

  • German master in light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Only noticed when three are counted". In: The world. July 11, 1983, Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Amateur boxing: "Jessie" looked like the sure winner. July 8, 2013, accessed October 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Criticism of the lonely decision. In: The world. September 17, 1984. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jassmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Korbach