Marcel Limage

Marcel Limage
Data
Birth Name	Marcel Limage
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	Belgian
birthday	July 21, 1929
place of birth	Quaregnon , Belgium
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	53
Victories	35
Knockout victories	18th
Defeats	17th
draw	1

Marcel Limage (born July 21, 1929 in Quaregnon , Belgium ) is a former Belgian boxer . He was European champion of amateur boxers in 1951 in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Marcel Limage was already very successful as an amateur boxer. On November 23, 1949 he was in the Belgian amateur selection , which competed in London against England . He fought in the light heavyweight division against Donald Scott and suffered a point defeat. He fought another international match for Belgium on February 11, 1950 in Brussels . Again it was against England and in this comparison Marcel Limage won over Vic Harrisson on points.

On March 30, 1951, Marcel Limage started in a European selection that fought in the United States. In the first comparison USA against Europe on March 30, 1951 in Chicago , he lost against Bobby Jackson by technical knockout in the 1st round. He was unable to compete for the second fight in Washington, DC two days later because of an injury he suffered .

Between May 14 and 19, 1951, the European championships in amateur boxing took place in Milan . Marcel Limage was recovered from his injury and in excellent shape. He played three fights in the light heavyweight division in Milan. In the quarter-finals he defeated Tebbakka from France , in the semifinals Alfonsetti from Italy and in the final Lingaas from Norway, each on points and thus became European champion .

Profile career

Marcel Limage joined the professional boxer in autumn 1951. Up until the spring of 1953 he fought almost exclusively in his native Belgium and scored 20 victories in a row. On March 18, 1953, he became Belgian light heavyweight champions by defeating Victor d'Haes . On June 19, 1953, he boxed in Hamburg against the experienced German Willi Hoepner and suffered a difficult knockout defeat. Well recovered, he was able to win his next fights again and successfully defend his Belgian championship title on October 25, 1953 in Genappe by knocking out Andre de Keersgieter , but his further attempts to win over good European boxers in the ranking of the best Establishing light heavyweights failed. He lost in those fights & a. against Albert Finch from England, Ivano Fontana from Italy and against the Germans William Besmanoff and Winfried Henne, who were not even among the very first set of German light heavyweights.

Marcel Limage defended his championship title on April 2, 1955 and May 21, 1955 twice successfully against Andre Wyns and Victor Vicky and then switched to the heavyweight division. But even in this weight class he could no longer achieve any great success. He lost to top English boxers Joe Erskine , Dick Richardson and Joe Bygraves and also to the Germans Hans Friedrich (boxer) , Hans Kalbfell , Helmut Ball and Oskar Büttner. An attempt to be Belgian heavyweight champion on November 22, 1956 in Brussels also failed. He lost to Alain Cherville by knockout in the 6th round.

In the spring of 1959, Marcel Limage therefore ended his career as a professional boxer.

Web links

• Marcel Limage in the BoxRec database