Markus Beyer

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Markus Beyer
Markus Beyer at the VOX “ Ewige-Helden ” press conference in December 2015
Data
Birth Name	Markus Beyer
Weight class	Super middleweight
nationality	German
birthday	April 28, 1971
place of birth	Erlabrunn
Date of death	3rd December 2018
Place of death	Berlin
style	Legal display
size	1.76 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	39
Victories	35
Knockout victories	13
Defeats	3
draw	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Markus Beyer at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009

Markus Beyer (born April 28, 1971 in Erlabrunn ; † December 3, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German professional boxer and WBC world champion in super middleweight .

Amateur career

In his long amateur career , southpaw Beyer from Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains won 235 of 274 fights. Even as a teenager he was able to celebrate successes and, starting for the SG Wismut Gera , became school, youth and junior champion in the GDR . In 1988 he also won the title at the GDR Senior Championships and was in Danzig with a final victory against the Romanian Zoltan Lunka junior European champion in flyweight (51 kg). In 1989 Beyer boxed at the Junior World Championships in Bayamón (Puerto Rico) and reached the featherweight (57 kg) final, where he lost to the Puerto Rican Carlos Febres on points 20-27.

After the reunification of Germany , Beyer was also German light middleweight champion in 1993 and 1995 (71 kg), and in 1994 he lost to Mario Veit in the final . At the 1993 World Championships in Tampere , Finland , he was eliminated by defeat in the round of 16 against the Romanian Francisc Vaştag (3-13). In 1995 he reached third place in the title fights in Berlin , where he lost in the semi-finals against Vaştag 4-8. 1996 Beyer was again defeated Vaştag in the final of the European Championships in Vejle (Denmark) 4-14.

Beyer took part in the Olympic Games twice for Germany , but failed early in each case: in 1992 in Barcelona he lost in the round of 16 by breaking off in the first round against the Cuban Juan Carlos Lemus . In 1996 in Atlanta he failed in the quarter-finals against Kazakhs Jermachan Ibraimow (9-19), after he had previously managed to win (17-12) against three-time amateur world champion Vaştag.

Professional career

In 1996 Markus Beyer switched to the professional business and was signed by the promoter Wilfried Sauerland . His coach was Ulli Wegner , who had already trained him as an amateur. In his 17th professional fight, Beyer got the opportunity to fight for a world title for the first time. On October 23, 1999, he won the WBC super middleweight title by beating Britain's Richie Woodhall on points. He was only the third German after Max Schmeling and Ralf Rocchigiani who managed to become world champion abroad.

In his second title defense on May 6, 2000, however, he lost the belt due to a technical knockout in the twelfth round to Glenn Catley . In the following three years Beyer worked his way up again with eight wins and got another title fight against the reigning WBC world champion, the French-Canadian Éric Lucas . With a narrow points win he became world champion again on April 5, 2003. His first title defense he completed in August 2003 with a controversial win against the Australian Danny Green . Green had sent Beyer to the ground in the first two rounds, but was then disqualified because of an intentional headbutt.

On June 6, 2004, he lost the WBC title after a surprising point defeat in Chemnitz to the Italian Cristian Sanavia . The boxing stable hired the Hamburg psychologist Eckard Winderl , who previously u. a. Dariusz Michalszewski had successfully coached in his world championship fight against Virgil Hill, as coach for Beyer. Beyer won after four months in his direct rematch against Sanavia by knockout in the sixth round. For the third time he was able to become world champion in super middleweight according to the WBC version. No other German boxer had managed that before.

The successful cooperation with Winderl was also shown in March 2005. Beyer won the rematch against Green convincingly on points, he himself appeared mentally stronger in this fight than ever before. In the last lap, Green Beyer covered with a flurry of blows, so that this had to be counted briefly. A shock moment, but Beyer remained stable. He also showed his critics that he had developed mentally. It was a special fight for Beyer: "The win against Danny Green was definitely one of my greatest highlights."

Markus Beyer and Eckard Winderl continued their successful collaboration until January 2006.

The title defense against Sakio Bika from Cameroon was broken off prematurely in May 2006 after the fifth round because of a laceration under Beyer's right eye as a result of a headbutt from Bika and counted as a draw. On October 14, 2006, a unification fight took place in Copenhagen against the Dane Mikkel Kessler , title holder of the WBA association. Beyer lost the match in the third round after a quick combination by Kessler through a knockout.

After this defeat, rumors arose of a possible retirement from boxing, but this was never officially announced. Instead, Beyer explained as part of his moderation work on ARD in August 2007 that the fight between Arthur Abraham and Khoren Gevor had given him the pleasure of boxing again and that he wanted to return to the ring. After lengthy disagreements with his promoter Sauerland, he switched to Arena Box Promotion at the end of 2007 and signed a contract for four fights. For the Hamburg boxing stable, Beyer only completed one fight, a point victory in a build-up fight against the Russian Murad Machmudow in March 2008, as he finally ended his active career after protracted injury problems, including a fatigue fracture in the fifth lumbar spine.

List of professional fights

year	Day	place	Opponent / target	Result for Beyer
1996	November 23	Olympiahalle , Munich , Germany	Eric Davis	Victory / TKO 6th round
	December 7th	Vienna , Austria	Harold Roberts	Victory / TKO 2nd round
1997	February 15th	Kurhalle Oberlaa, Vienna, Austria	Andrew Flute	Points win / 6 rounds
	April 13th	Cologne , Germany	Isidore Janvier	Victory / TKO 5th round
	26th of April	Leipzig , Germany	Yuri Filipko	Points win / 6 rounds
	June 1st	Riesa , Germany	Paul Busby	Points win / 8 rounds
	June 22	Cologne, Germany	Danny Thomas	Points win / 6 rounds
	July 12	Olympia , London , UK	Simon Andrews	Victory / TKO 5th round
	5th October	Gera , Germany	Terry Ford	Victory / KO 4th round
	November 2	Halle (Saale) , Germany	Kevin Pompey	Points win / 8 rounds
1998	11th January	SachsenARENA , Riesa, Germany	Alexander Boy German Championship	Victory / KO 7th round
	April 18	Duisburg , Germany	Yuri Yepifanzew	Victory / TKO 7th round
	December 5th	Cologne, Germany	Robert Koon	Points win / 8 rounds
1999	27th of February	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin, Germany	Rene-Claude Dutard	Points win / 8 rounds
	8th of May	Philipshalle , Düsseldorf , Germany	Octavian Stoica	Points win / 8 rounds
	6th of June	Ball sports hall , Frankfurt am Main , Germany	Juan Carlos Viloria	Points win / 12 rounds
	23rd October	Ice Rink, Telford , UK	Richie Woodhall WBC World Championship	Points win / 12 rounds
2000	January 29th	SachsenARENA, Riesa, Germany	Leif Keiski WBC title defense	Victory / KO 7th round
	May 6th	Ball sports hall, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Glenn Catley WBC title defense	Loss / TKO 12th round
	December 16	Europahalle , Karlsruhe , Germany	Ahmet Dine	Points win / 8 rounds
2001	January 27th	SachsenARENA, Riesa, Germany	Lloyd Bryan	Points win / 10 rounds
	April 21	Exhibition hall , Erfurt , Germany	Manuel Lopez	Victory / KO 7th round
	September 1	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg , Germany	Glenn Breath	Points win / 8 rounds
	October 6th	Ice stadium , Cologne, Germany	Shannon Landberg	Points win / 10 rounds
2002	3 March	Brandenburg-Halle, Frankfurt (Oder) , Germany	Anton Robinson	Victory / TKO 7th round
	April 27	SachsenARENA, Riesa, Germany	Vincenzo Imparato	Points win / 12 rounds
	August 24th	Arena Leipzig , Leipzig , Germany	Roni Martínez	Victory / TKO 4th round
2003	April 5th	Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany	Eric Lucas WBC World Championship	Points win / 12 rounds
	August 16	Nürburgring , Nürburg , Germany	Danny Green WBC title defense	Victory / DQ 5th round
2004	February 28	Multipurpose hall, Dresden , Germany	Andre Thysse WBC title defense	Points win / 12 rounds
	June 5th	Chemnitz Arena , Chemnitz , Germany	Cristian Sanavia WBC title defense	Point loss / 12 rounds
	9th October	Exhibition hall, Erfurt, Germany	Cristian Sanavia WBC World Championship	Victory / KO 6th round
	December 18th	Oberfrankenhalle, Bayreuth , Germany	Yoshinori Nishizawa WBC title defense	Points win / 12 rounds
2005	March 12th	Stadthalle, Zwickau , Germany	Danny Green WBC title defense	Points win / 12 rounds
	September 3	International Congress Center , Berlin, Germany	Omar Sheika WBC title defense	Points win / 12 rounds
2006	January 28th	Tempodrom , Berlin, Germany	Alberto Colajanni WBC title defense	Victory / TKO 12th round
	May 13th	Stadthalle, Zwickau, Germany	Sakio Bika WBC title defense	Draw / TD 4th round
	October 14th	Parking , Copenhagen , Denmark	Mikkel Kessler WBC title defense, WBA World Championship	Loss / KO 3rd round
2008	the 14th of March	Zenith , Munich, Germany	Murad Makhmudov	Points win / 8 rounds

Others

In 2005 he founded the promotion agency 12Rounds, which looked after professional boxers such as Danilo Häußler , Richel Hersisia and Alexander Sipos. At the end of 2009 he left the company.

From 2008 to the beginning of 2010, Beyer was married to Daniela Haak, member of the Eurodance formation Mr. President , and lived with her in Lilienthal near Bremen . After the separation he moved back to Schwarzenberg.

From 2015 Beyer worked as an expert for the MDR television program Sport im Osten .

In 2016, he reached fifth place in the VOX show Eternal Heroes .

Markus Beyer died in December 2018 at the age of 47 from cancer in a Berlin hospital.

literature

• Monty Gräßler: With left and 40 fever: The extraordinary career of boxing world champion Markus Beyer . Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937025-48-3 .

Web links

Commons : Markus Beyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Markus Beyer in the BoxRec database
• Markus Beyer in BoxRec Encyclopaedia
• Markus Beyer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Literature by and about Markus Beyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for MDR boxing expert Markus Beyer. In: mdr.de . December 4, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ex-boxer Markus Beyer († 47) is dead. In: TAG24 . December 4, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 . 

predecessor	title	successor
Richie Woodhall	World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) October 23, 1999 - May 6, 2000	Glenn Catley
Eric Lucas	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion (WBC) April 5, 2003 - June 5, 2004	Cristian Sanavia
Cristian Sanavia	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion (WBC) October 9, 2004 - October 14, 2006	Mikkel Kessler