Peter Weiland

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Peter Weiland boxer
German heavyweight champion in 1968

German heavyweight champion in 1968
Data
Birth Name
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday March 21, 1940
place of birth A field
Date of death 22nd January 2014
Place of death Schoenberg (Holstein)
Combat Statistics
Struggles 31
Victories 23
Knockout victories 18th
Defeats 6th
draw 2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Peter Weiland (born March 21, 1940 in Einfeld , † January 22, 2014 in Schönberg in Holstein ) was a German boxer .

Career

Weiland, whose father was killed in World War II, grew up in Neumünster . From 1955 he completed an apprenticeship as a miner at the Lohberg colliery in Dinslaken . At BC Dinslaken he learned boxing. He worked in the mining industry until 1960 and then returned to Neumünster. From then on he worked as a metal worker.

As an amateur boxer, he achieved no nationwide success, but was several times state champion of Schleswig-Holstein . Weiland's career as a professional boxer, which he said he had started for money, resulted in two defeats in his first two fights in 1964. He was considered lumbering and overweight at nearly 260 pounds. Weiland dropped his weight and remained undefeated in 16 fights (14 wins, two draws) after his opening defeats. In mid-April 1967 he competed in front of 8,000 spectators in Kiel  against title holder Gerhard Zech , it was about the German championship in the heavyweight division. Weiland lost for the first time in his career by knockout

Peter Weiland (right) in the fight against Jürgen Blin (1968).

With a win against Jürgen Blin , Weiland, who was supervised by Theo Wittenbrink as manager, became German heavyweight champion in 1968. The fight was fought in front of 7,000 people in the Ostseehalle Kiel . Weiland let Blin come in the course of the fight and counted on the counterattack. He often got his left hooked to the finish line, which the Hamburger Abendblatt classified as "not spectacular, but steady".

On December 6, 1969, he was trained by Harry Kneipp , by his victory over the French Bernard Thebault European heavyweight champion . Again this fight took place in Kiel. Weiland put his left liver hook, which was his trademark, against the French again. "The German's heavy left, which seeks its way to the opponent's liver with the precision and inevitability of a torpedo, can degrade the best trained man, the most sophisticated boxing artist, to an unconscious victim and 'sink' it onto the bottom of the ring," said the Hamburger Abendblatt Weilands Special strike. Weiland was rewarded with 35,000 D-Marks for the EM fight. On April 3, 1970, he lost his title when he defended it for the first time. He lost in the fight against the Spaniard José Manuel Urtain in Madrid . In January 1971, Weiland had to give up the German championship title. In the West Berlin Deutschlandhalle he was defeated by Horst Benedens . Weiland, who received a fee of around 40,000 D-Marks, lost due to abandonment. The referee ended the fight in the eighth round because of Weiland's injury.

Weiland's career ended in 1971 after a car accident. Then he ran an inn in Neumünster .

literature

  • Continue to slim down. Der Spiegel, December 15, 1969 ( online )
  • Lutz Wagner: Peter Weiland's famous liver hook . Hamburger Abendblatt, December 18, 2003 ( online )
  • 120,000 marks as bait. European boxing champion Weiland defends his title. Die Zeit, March 27, 1970 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Peter Weiland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1969/pdf/19691208.pdf/ASV_HAB_19691208_HA_011.pdf
  2. ↑ a b BOXEN / WEILAND: Slimming down further - DER SPIEGEL 51/1969. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b BoxRec: Peter Weiland. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1967/pdf/19670417.pdf/ASV_HAB_19670417_HA_016.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19700214.pdf/ASV_HAB_19700214_HA_025.pdf
  6. ↑ a b c Peter Weiland. In: Munzinger biography. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1968/pdf/19681102.pdf/ASV_HAB_19681102_HA_037.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710123.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710123_HA_025.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Weiland, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH A field
DATE OF DEATH 22th January 2014
Place of death Schoenberg in Holstein