Peter Müller (boxer)

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Peter Müller boxer
Peter Müller
Data
Birth Name Peter Müller
Weight class medium weight
nationality GermanyGermany German
birthday February 24, 1927
place of birth Cologne-Sülz
Date of death June 22, 1992
Place of death Cologne-Bayenthal
style Left delivery
Combat Statistics
Struggles 176
Victories 133
Knockout victories 68
Defeats 26th
draw 14th
No value 3

Peter Müller (born February 24, 1927 in Cologne-Sülz , † June 22, 1992 in Cologne-Bayenthal ) was a German boxer .

Life

Peter Müller was born and raised at Palanterstraße 22 in what was then a notorious, child-rich working-class area between Berrenrather and Zülpicher Straße in Cologne-Sülz. The typical three-window house still stands today, neighboring houses fell victim to the bombing war. In 1949 he married Greta Thelen, the daughter of his trainer Jupp Thelen. After his boxing career, he got into the slot machine business. Peter Müller died of a stroke at the age of 65 . He was buried in Cologne's southern cemetery.

Kölsch original

Peter Müller was called the Aap ( Kölsch for "the monkey") or Müller's Aap because of his stooped fighting stance and his cheerful appearance . He became famous when in June 1952 in Cologne in the fight for the middleweight championship against Hans Stretz, the referee Max Pippow from Hamburg , who had previously warned him about brackets and, according to Müller's own statement, called a " gypsy " with a right hook knocked out ("I turned him off!"). He also defeated the four seconds who wanted to intervene, and he even attacked his boxing manager and father-in-law Jupp Thelen, who wanted to intervene. However, this scene cannot be seen on images of the fight. Müller did not stand alone in front of the referee, but continued to box with Hans Stretz until the helpers tried to interrupt the fight.

The grave of Greta and Peter Müller

Thereupon Müller received a lifelong ban, which was lifted ten months later. In the meantime, as well as later after his retirement, he occasionally worked as a catcher and tried his hand at a pop singer ("Ring free, for the first round, ring free, now I'm coming ..." and " Rädebomm, da Jong da falls nit om ... "). He was a welcome guest at Cologne carnival events.

It is also known that in 1953 in the USA he had a harmonica put into the ring and instead of the German national anthem, he intoned the Horst Wessel song , which he mistakenly believed to be the German anthem.

Several true or well-made up Müller anecdotes were circulating in Cologne. An example of this is the parody of a laundry detergent commercial : The OMO reporter asks Peter Müller: “What do you think of OMO?” Answer: “I knock down in the first round.”

successes

Peter Müller was five times German middleweight champion. But he could never achieve the title of European champion. At the first attempt in 1959 against Bubi Scholz , the fight was already over after two minutes in the first round by knockout . When he tried again against the three-time Hungarian Olympic champion László Papp , he lost in the fourth round in 1963, also by knockout, although he had previously announced: "Dä Papperlapapp, dä cut down."

Müller's Boxweise was characterized by attack with an open visor. His trainer and father-in-law Jupp Thelen said in October 1962 about Müller: "In wedges, nobody comes with Peter." Müller was "a phenomenon of physical robustness", wrote the journalist Wolfgang Fricke about the Cologne man, given his long boxing career. who at times also undertook an excursion into the sport of catching .

In 1967, Müller was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor by the Association of German Professional Boxers .

Web links

Commons : Peter Müller  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Meyer: Ring free for the next round. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . 20./21. August 2011 (real estate part)
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Greta and Peter Müller
  3. ↑ Peter Müller. Don't you know me? In: Der Spiegel. 25/1952
  4. ↑ Video Youtube
  5. ↑ Friedemann Needy: “The dead man raises his tired hand”. In: The time . No. 13, March 21, 1980
  6. ↑ Ulli Kulke: "Omo? Dä I knock in the first round cap". Die Welt , June 7, 2012, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620602.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620602_HA_019.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19621006.pdf/ASV_HAB_19621006_HA_017.pdf
  9. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1967/pdf/19670225.pdf/ASV_HAB_19670225_HA_021.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Aap, Müller's Aap
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Sülz
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1992
Place of death Cologne-Bayenthal