Michel Trabant

Michel Trabant
Data
Birth Name	Michel Trabant
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	German
birthday	May 11, 1978
place of birth	Berlin
style	Left delivery
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	57
Victories	51
Knockout victories	24
Defeats	4th
draw	1
No value	1

Michel Trabant (born May 11, 1978 in Berlin ) is a former German boxer and today's boxing trainer.

amateur

Trabant started boxing at the age of ten and has completed 53 amateur fights with 48 wins, four losses and one draw. In 1994 he became the International German Junior Champion. The last amateur who was able to defeat Michel Trabant before moving to the professional camp was Jörg Thieme at the German Youth Championship in 1994.

Professional career

In 1995 Michel Trabant became a professional at Universum Box-Promotion at the age of 16 and initially boxed in light and light welterweight. In October 1997, by KO -Sieg the second round over defending champion Mike Reisman German welterweight champion. In 2002 he won the European welterweight title and defended it twice, including against the French Frederic Klose.

Then he went on September 13, 2003 against Jose Luis Rivera in the fight for the WBA title. The belt became vacant after the original title holder Ricardo Mayorga was promoted to "WBA Superchampion" after the union of the WBA with the WBC title. In the fight, Trabant had to go to the ground in the second round and finally lost through a narrow point decision, the first defeat of his professional career.

In July 2004 he was defeated by Frederic Klose in a European Championship fight on points. In February 2006 he won the EU title (not to be confused with the traditional EM of the EBU ). After the fight against Marco Cattikas on May 6, 2006, he tested positive for anabolic steroids and was banned for one year. After the doping ban, he continued his career with promoter Wilfried Sauerland . On February 9, 2008 Trabant boxed in the USA against the undefeated Andre Berto and lost for the first time in his career prematurely when the fight was canceled by the referee after the sixth round.

Others

Trabant has a son from a previous marriage, his brother Stephan Trabant was also a professional boxer.

From autumn 2006, Michel Trabant appeared as a joint plaintiff in a trial against his former trainer Werner Papke , who had to answer for the sexual abuse of four of his boxing students before the Berlin district court . In April 2008, Papke was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

In December 2010, Michel Trabant hit a 23-year-old visitor in the face in a Berlin discotheque after she tried to settle a dispute between Trabant's wife and another visitor. For this, Trabant was sentenced on May 29, 2012 by the Berlin district court to a fine of 1,350 euros .

Web links

• Michel Trabant in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boxer knocked three teeth out of Ms. Retrieved May 29, 2012 .