Pure Gies

Pure Gies
Data
Birth Name	Pure Gies
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	German
birthday	March 12, 1963
place of birth	Kaiserslautern
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	15th
Victories	13
Knockout victories	9
Defeats	2

Reiner Gies (born March 12, 1963 in Kaiserslautern ) is a former German boxer .

Amateur career

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Reiner Gies won the bronze medal in boxing in the lightweight class. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles he reached fifth place, where he was defeated in the quarterfinals by the American Pernell Whitaker . In 1986 he also took part in the amateur world championships in Reno , where he lost in the quarterfinals to Orsubek Nazarow from the Soviet Union .

Gies was German amateur champion a total of seven times in three weight classes: 1982 in featherweight, 1983, 1985 and 1986 in lightweight and 1984, 1987 and 1989 in light welterweight. He fought for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and CSC Frankfurt and played more than 300 amateur fights. He fought his best fight as an amateur in 1984 at the Intercup in Karlsruhe, when he was able to beat three-time world and Olympic champion Ángel Herrera from Cuba on points. When he won a tournament in Canada, he was elected the “Lord of the Ring” as the best technician of the tournament. He then carried this name “The Lord” as a pseudonym for professional boxers.

professional

In 1991 he switched to the professional camp. As a professional boxer, he became International German Welterweight Champion and IBF Intercontinental Champion. After almost three years as a professional boxer and two defeats in 1994, he ended his active career.

He was trained by Frank Kiy - Universum Box-Promotion Hamburg.

Web links

• Reiner Gies in the BoxRec database