René Weller

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René Weller boxer
René Weller
Data
Birth Name René Weller
Weight class lightweight
nationality GermanyGermany German
birthday November 21, 1953
place of birth Pforzheim
style Left delivery
size 1.77 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 55
Victories 52
Knockout victories 24
Defeats 1
draw 2
Profile in the BoxRec database

René Theo Weller (born November 21, 1953 in Pforzheim ) is a former German boxer. He was nine times German champion and vice European champion among the amateurs as well as German champion and twice European champion of the EBU among the professionals.

Amateur career

The trained heating fitter and goldsmith started boxing early and worked as a casual worker. His father Harald, who died when Weller was 14 years old, had been a boxer for many years. At the age of six he was already a successful judoka member of the Pforzheim Judo Club . From 1966 Weller was at the Blau-Weiß Pforzheim boxing ring. He was particularly encouraged by trainer Heinz Weishaar . Weishaar discovered him, he owed his “entire career”, according to Weller. He won on January 20, 1968 at a viewing tournament of the Baden Boxing Association for the first time in a supraregional fight. In 1969 Weller was the best youth bantamweight at the Baden Championships. In addition, Weller played football in his youth.

In 1972 he became German bantamweight champion for the first time with a final win against Hans Pillarz . From 1973 to 1976 he won the German featherweight championship four times in a row and from 1977 to 1980 the German lightweight championship title four times in a row.

At the 20th European Championships in June 1973 in Belgrade , he was eliminated in the quarterfinals on points against the later silver medalist Zoran Jovanović. In 1976 he represented Germany at the 21st Summer Olympics in Montreal . There he won the featherweight against the Frenchman Serge Thomas, before he was eliminated by the Romanian Gheorghe Ciochină. At the 22nd European Championships in Halle (Saale) in 1977 he lost in the semifinals against later European champion Ace Rusevski .

In May 1979 he took part in the lightweight at the 23rd European Championships in Cologne . After victories against the Swede Ove Lundby, the Czech Ladislav Konečný and the Romanian Ilie Dragomir, he moved into the final. There, however, he was defeated by Viktor Demyanenko from the Soviet Union.

At the 1st World Cup in October 1979 in New York, he was defeated in the semifinals to the American David Armstrong on points.

In October 1980 he took part in the international "100 Years of British Boxing Tournament" and won the gold medal in the lightweight with a final victory over Gary Felvus.

In 1981 he took part in the 24th European Championship in Tampere , but lost his second fight on points against two-time European champion Viktor Rybakov .

Professional career

Weller made his professional debut, who was supervised by Wilfried Sauerland as a promoter, on June 12, 1981 in Cologne against the former Italian champion Potito Di Muro and won on points. In his second fight on August 16, he defeated the until then unbeaten (11 wins - 0 defeats) British Ken Foreman by knockout in the second round. In his third fight on September 25th against Dieter Schantz, he won the German championship title in the light weight category by knockout in the fourth round.

Before his fight against Charles LaCour in Las Vegas (US state Nevada ) at the end of June 1982, he had previously placed his entire fee of 25,000 US dollars on his own victory in a bet, Weller told the news magazine in April 1985 The mirror .

After 15 more victories, u. a. against Bruno De Montis (21-1) and the two former European champions Rodolfo Sánchez (53-14) and Charlie Nash (25-4), on June 29, 1983 in Sicily he got the chance to win the EBU European lightweight title. The fight against title holder Lucio Cusma (22-3) ended in a draw, making Cusma European champion. The result was assessed differently: While the Hamburger Abendblatt wrote in its edition of June 30, 1983 that the draw was "already very mild" for Weller, the news magazine Spiegel called the result in retrospect a "scandal", Weller was the better man , but there were death threats from the Mafia before the fight, which is why the German was protected by two bodyguards.

In his next fight on September 10, 1983, he defeated the French champion and later European champion Tusikoleta Nkalankete . Then he went on October 7th against James Ortega (9-1) to fight for the world title of the super featherweight association WAA, which is insignificant in international comparison , and defeated the American by knockout in the first round.

After two more knockout victories, there was a rematch against Lucio Cusma on March 9, 1984 in front of 7500 spectators in the Festhalle in Frankfurt am Main , which Weller won this time unanimously on points. He then successfully defended his title against the Spanish champion José Antonio García (31-7), the later WBO world champion Daniel Londas (26-3), the British champion George Feeney (19-9) and the French champion Frederic Geoffroy (21 -1).

In his fifth defense of the title on January 10, 1986, he lost to the eventual WBO world champion Gert Bo Jacobsen (15-0). The fight, which was played in front of 4,000 spectators in Randers , Denmark , was canceled in the eighth round. Weller had a laceration on his eyebrow in the fifth lap. In the eighth round the bleeding increased, and the referee broke off the fight. Wellers promoter Sauerland spoke of fraud, as he believed the injury was caused by a headbutt from the Dane. This was the only defeat in his professional career. On May 12, 1986 he was again German lightweight champion with a points win against Konrad Mittermeier and defended the title in the rematch against Mittermeier and by knockout against Georg Vlachos.

On March 5, 1988 he was in Karlsruhe with a points win against the French José Maillot (23-10) again European champion of the EBU in the lightweight. The reigning European champion Jacobsen, against whom Weller lost his title, was unable to compete in a planned renewed fight against the Pforzheimer because of an illness, whereupon the Dane's European title was withdrawn at the request of Klaus-Peter Kohl (then chairman of the Association of German Professional Boxers). Weller's replacement opponent Maillot only had 14 days to prepare for the fight. By the end of his career in May 1993, Weller boxed nine more times, including a draw against the Romanian Stefan Ilie, whom he then defeated in the rematch.

Besides and after boxing

Wellers playboy-like appearance earned him the nickname "the beautiful René" in the early 1980s. In 2018, he explained to Der Spiegel in this regard: “I had to attract attention to be popular. Who in Germany is interested in a completely normal lightweight boxer? ”In 1985 he played the leading role in the movie Macho Man and in 2017 in its sequel, in 1993 a role in Ebbies Bluff by Claude-Oliver Rudolph . In 1991 Weller obtained an injunction against the production company of the film Macho Man , which then had to remove all sex scenes with him from the film. During his professional career in the 1980s, he was already selling trousers, cars, watches, gold and jackets under the brand name "Rewell", and later he brought out a belt and gold jewelry collection.

On July 16, 1999, Weller was sentenced to seven years in prison for cocaine trafficking , receiving stolen goods , inciting forgery of documents and illegal possession of weapons. On January 31, 2003, he was released early from prison for good conduct.

In 2002 he played in the music video for "Hell In Hell" by the Berlin music band Surrogat. In July 2004 he was seen on the reality show Die Alm, broadcast by the private broadcaster ProSieben . On January 21, 2005 he opened his new action show in a Karlsruhe disco. An entertainment show about martial arts and thrills was presented under the striking title The Return of the Tough Boys . Weller performed together with the action artist Marko König and the ten-time world champion of the fakirs Benji le Fakir.

From September 18 to September 25, 2005, he spent a week in the Big Brother village, but had to leave it because of some differences and scandal . Among other things, he took off his pants after excessive alcohol consumption and presented his bare bottom to the residents.

Weller also tried his hand at being a singer. In 1985 he sang a German cover version of Mel Brooks' Hitler Rap from the film Being or Not being under the title René Weller Rap (To be or not to be) . His CD Ich bin wieder hier was released in January 2003 , and on May 10, 2006 he presented his second CD Wach auf in the online brothel Big Sister .

On 24 May 2006 he won in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz a fight against 9Live presenter Jürgen Milski . A lawsuit for damages and compensation for pain and suffering against Günther Jauch , announced in March 2006, began on September 7th in Potsdam . Jauch had in the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In connection with a question about boxing about Weller said: "He's always in jail". The Potsdam Regional Court dismissed the action. Weller then appealed, but the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court also dismissed the lawsuit.

In 2007 he invited the TV station ProSieben under the motto We are Family! This is how Germany lives - The Celebrity Special settles in at home in Dillweissenstein . In November 2008 and March 2010 Weller was seen in the program The perfect celebrity dinner on the private broadcaster VOX. In 2010, he and his fiancée Maria Dörk were accompanied for two episodes in the pseudo-docu-soap Rent, Buy, Live on the VOX channel.

In 2013 he took part in the documentary soap Celebrity Wife Swap. He switched his everyday life with that of Mathieu Carrière .

In April 2016 he was a participant in the big ProSieben Völkerball Championship . In July 2016, he and his wife took fourth place on the RTL reality show Das Sommerhaus der Stars - Kampf der Promipaare .

Weller has a daughter and a son. He has been married to the journalist Rosemaria (Maria) Dörk since November 2013, lives in Pforzheim and runs a boxing school.

Quotes

“To put it ironically: everyone can take their own life as they want. One takes pills, the other hangs himself, a third boxed. "

“A handsome man is actually not for women. A man has to be interesting. I am beautifully masculine. "

“I think everyone should be vain. That is what distinguishes us from animals. "

“Before I became a professional, 300 spectators came to professional boxing. Today there are between 5000 and 7000 spectators. "

"I'm world champion in love."

"The emancipated woman has no business in my house, someone like that could never be my partner."

"Boxing is the brother of prostitution."

"Even the Pope couldn't get a better police clearance certificate than I did."

(Quoted in each case from Der Spiegel : "I am beautifully male, European boxing champion Rene Weller on professional boxing in Germany", April 22, 1985)

Fonts

  • René Weller, Max Herfert: Boxing with René Weller - In three rounds to victory . Pietsch, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-50435-9 .

Web links

Wikiquote: René Weller  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Civil registry news of the city of Pforzheim in the Pforzheimer Zeitung of December 5, 1953, p. 23
  2. ↑ a b c d Alex Raack: Boxer René Weller turns 65: The golden boy . In: Spiegel Online . November 21, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c d The tender boy is a tough fighter between the ropes in Pforzheimer Zeitung of November 22, 1969, p. 37
  4. ↑ junior judo clubs Pforzheim dominated in Pforzheimer Zeitung of 8 July 1963: 9
  5. ↑ Mourning for Weller discoverer Heinz Weishaar. In: BoxSport. Sport Verlag GmbH, July 18, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Blau-Weiß has good young boxers , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of January 23, 1968, p. 19
  7. ^ A b Hans-Wolfgang Sternsdorff: SPIEGEL conversation: "I am beautifully male" . In: Spiegel Online . tape April 17 , 1985 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).
  8. ↑ The beautiful René ran away on fast legs. How Weller missed his title chance in Sicily. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. June 30, 1983. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1984/pdf/19840310.pdf/ASV_HAB_19840310_HA_009.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1986/pdf/19860111.pdf/ASV_HAB_19860111_HA_011.pdf
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1988/pdf/19880307.pdf/ASV_HAB_19880307_HA_011.pdf
  12. ↑ https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/38577
  13. ↑ Article from radio.cz
  14. ^ Judgment of the LG Brandenburg
  15. ↑ The big ProSieben Völkerball Championship 2016 - Team Hardcore ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (prosieben.de, accessed April 17, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prosieben.de
  16. ↑ This is René Weller ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  17. ↑ The summer house of the stars 2016: Celebrity couple René and Maria Weller at rtl.de. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  18. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Sternsdorff: I am beautifully masculine . In: DER SPIEGEL 17/1985 . spiegel.de. April 22, 1985. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Weller, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weller, René Theo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim