Pete Rademacher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pete Rademacher boxer
Pete Rademacher (1961)

Pete Rademacher (1961)
Data
Birth Name Pete Rademacher
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality American
birthday August 20, 1928
place of birth Grandview , Washington
Date of death 4th June 2020
Place of death Sandusky , Ohio
style Left delivery
size 1.87 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 23
Victories 15th
Knockout victories 8th
Defeats 7th
draw 1

Thomas Peter ("Pete") Rademacher (born August 20, 1928 in Grandview , Washington , † June 4, 2020 in Sandusky , Ohio ) was an American heavyweight boxer.

amateur

He had a record of 72 wins and 7 losses. Rademacher was American amateur champion in 1953. In 1956 he took part in the Olympic Games in Melbourne for the USA and won the gold medal in the heavyweight division. He won it in the final against the Russian Lev Dmitrijewitsch Muchin by a first-round knockout.

professional

After the Olympic victory, he provoked the reigning heavyweight world champion Floyd Patterson publicly by claiming that he could become world champion in his first professional fight. Patterson gave him the chance and Rademacher became the first and so far only professional boxer who was allowed to fight for the world title in his debut fight.

In the title fight on August 22, 1957, he even knocked Patterson to the ground in the second round, but ultimately lost in the sixth round by knockout.

He boxed for only five years in total and had little success, mainly due to his bad chin. In the second fight he was knocked out by Zora Folley , whom he had clearly mastered as an amateur. He later went KO against the ex-light heavyweights Archie Moore , Doug Jones and the Englishman Brian London, only against Karl Mildenberger he lost on points.

The only known heavyweight he could defeat was George Chuvalo . In 1962 he finally ended his career after winning points against former middleweight world champion Carl Olsen.

He later became a successful manager of a swimming pool company.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Pete Rademacher, 1956 Olympic boxing champion, this at 91

Web links

Commons : Pete Rademacher  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Rademacher, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rademacher, Thomas Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American heavyweight boxer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Grandview , Washington
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2020
Place of death Sandusky , Ohio