Max Resch

Max Resch
Data
Birth Name	Max Resch
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	German
birthday	September 18, 1932
place of birth	Stuttgart
Date of death	February 22, 2011
style	Southpaw
size	1.72 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	62
Victories	51
Knockout victories	37
Defeats	9
draw	2

Max Resch (born September 18, 1932 in Stuttgart ; † February 22, 2011 ) was a German boxer . He was vice European champion of amateurs in 1953 in the light middleweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Max Resch, who came from a family of twelve children, started boxing as a teenager at the boxing club Rot-Weiß Stuttgart. He was left-handed and therefore boxed as a southpaw. At the age of 18 he was in the final of the Württemberg welterweight championship in 1950, but had to accept a point defeat from the experienced German champion Ihlein from Neckarsulm .

In 1952 he made his breakthrough on a national level. He was Württemberg middleweight champion. At the second start of the Iranian national relay in Stuttgart, Max Resch was used in the middleweight division and came to a knockout victory in the first round over Tussin. In 1952 he also started at the German middleweight championship. He fought his way up to the final battle and was defeated by Dieter Wemhöner from Berlin just on points.

1953 Max Resch qualified for participation in the European Championships in Warsaw in the light middleweight division. In Warsaw, Max Resch won in the quarter-finals over Candau, France on points and also surely outscored the Soviet athlete Tischin in the semi-finals. In the final he faced the Englishman Bruce Wells . Wells, a super technician, managed to keep Max Resch at a distance and to avoid his dreaded hook series and to score points himself with his excellent leading hand, which brought him the victory. For Max Resch, winning the Vice European Championship was a great success.

Max Resch started in 1953 at the German championship that took place after the European championship. He faced the Trier Breil in the final. Max Resch wanted to attach a liver hook to Breil in the first round, but it got too deep for him, so that he had to be disqualified because Breil was no longer able to fight.

After this German championship, Max Resch switched to professional boxing.

Profile career

Max Resch signed a professional contract with manager Walter Englert in the summer of 1953. His coach was Bruno Müller, one of the best coaches who were active in professional boxing at the time. He played his first fight on October 2, 1953 in Berlin against Erich Rehmut, whom he knocked out in the second round. Max Resch also won his next fights mostly briefly by knockout. The first heavier touchstone for him was on August 27, 1954 in Berlin, the Dutch light heavyweight champion Willy Schagen . Max Resch couldn't cope with the more difficult blow and received a flattering draw.

In the following fights against not too strong opponents, Max Resch should be built up carefully, he celebrated only successes. Noteworthy were the victories over the Spanish champion Kid Gamero, whom he knocked out on March 11, 1955 in Hamburg in the seventh round, and over the experienced American Baby Day , whom he knocked out on June 12, 1955 in Dortmund the fourth round and defeated the Frenchman Claude Milazzo , who had already beaten some top German boxers and whom he beat on January 20, 1956 in Hamburg by technical knockout in the fifth round.

On March 2, 1956, Max Resch fought against the Englishman Alex Buxton , a boxer who was among the five best boxers in the European light heavyweight ranking. Nevertheless, Resch was considered a favorite. In round one, Resch hit Buxton three times, but experienced his fiasco in the second round when he was hit hard on the chin by Alex Buxton and was knocked out. It turned out that Max Resch had a so-called "glass chin". This means that his taker qualities were very low. A blow to the chin, which other boxers easily put away, led to Max Resch's knockout defeat. This was to be repeated more often in Max Resch's further career.

Initially, Max Resch was well recovered from his defeat. He won eleven of his next twelve fights and boxed once. During this time he won over the former world numbering boxer Tuzo Portuguez from Puerto Rico on points, defeated the French Mickey Laurent in Hamburg on February 28, 1958 and another French, Jean Ruellet , on points in Dortmund on February 22, 1958 . He now seemed ripe for a fight for the German middleweight championship against Bubi Scholz from Berlin. This fight took place on May 3, 1958 in Dortmund. Max Resch risked everything and repeatedly attacked Gustav Scholz vehemently. That this was the wrong tactic against the excellent counter-boxer Scholz became apparent in the fourth round, in which he was caught by Scholz with a hard hook on the chin and was knocked out.

When Max Resch lost his next fight against old master Peter Müller from Cologne on October 25, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main by being knocked out in the fifth round, his career seemed to be at an end. But he kept boxing. He even managed to take revenge on Alex Buxton on December 12, 1959 in Stuttgart, whom he beat on points. Max Resch did not come to any further championship fights. On December 6, 1963, he lost in Cologne against the aspiring Jupp Elze by knockout in the sixth round. After another knockout defeat in Esch-sur-Alzette against Ray Philippe from Luxembourg, Max Resch ended his career.

Max Resch, who was considered one of the greatest talents in the German professional boxer scene in the 1950s, could never live up to this claim. It turned out that he boxed too daring and risky in many fights. Coupled with his "glass chin", this was not a good prerequisite for a successful boxing career. After retiring, he lived in Hamburg and later in Bietigheim-Bissingen.

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• Box Sport trade journal from 1950 to 1964
• BOX ALMANACH 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980

Web links

• Max Resch in the BoxRec database