Roland Bock

Roland Bock (born August 3, 1944 in Geislingen an der Steige ) is a former German wrestler , wrestler and entrepreneur .

Career

Youth and beginnings

Roland Bock grew up in Feuerbach . As a schoolboy, he turned to wrestling at the Feuerbach Sports Association, a traditional club that had been involved in heavy athletics since the turn of the century around 1900. He achieved excellent results in all junior categories in Baden-Württemberg in both styles (Greco-Roman and freestyle). In 1962 he was German youth champion in the class over 79 kg body weight.

Wrestling

In 1962 and 1965 he was also German junior heavyweight champion. In the meantime he has grown into a handsome heavyweight, with a height of 1.92 m he weighed around 120 kg, he soon became one of the best heavyweight wrestlers in Germany and Europe . In Germany from 1965 to 1972 he often met the old master Wilfried Dietrich , fought against him several times in a draw, but was never able to defeat him. The German Wrestling Federation also used it frequently on an international level and usually achieved good results. The high point of his career as an amateur wrestler were the European Championships in the Greco-Roman style in 1970 in Berlin (East), where he became European champion in a superior style and also defeated the Bulgarian world champion Alexandar Tomow . He also achieved a victory over the Soviet champion Anatoly Kochnev and a draw against the multiple world and Olympic champion Anatoly Roschtschin . Roland Bock, who had the best physical prerequisites and excellent technical skills, often failed as an amateur because of his nerves, which cost him even greater sporting success.

Wrestling

When Roland Bock was not nominated for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 , he drew the consequences. The reason why he was not nominated: After the previous European Championships in Katowice, he fell out with the President of the German Wrestling Association, Hermann Schwindling, and was temporarily banned. In 1973 he switched to wrestling . He succeeded in a dazzling career. He was considered a downright no-seller and shooter and competed in Europe , America and Japan . In 1978 he defeated the legendary Japanese Antonio Inoki , who faced Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) in a sensational match in 1976 , in 4 minutes and 10 seconds. Another well-known opponent he defeated was Andre the Giant , who was also a multiple champion.

Even during his active time as a wrestler, Bock worked as a hotelier and film actor in the film " Hurricane Rosie " as "Mike Fernandez". In 1982 he ended his wrestling career at the age of 37.

After the sporting career

After about a year of construction, he opened the Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg ("Rofa") on November 30, 1983 in a former refrigerator factory. The idea behind this was Otto Rossbacher, who is now managing director together with Christian Albrecht. The Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg attracted numerous well-known bands such as Metallica , Iron Maiden , Manowar , Nazareth , Mötley Crüe , Scorpions , Queen , Doro , Hammerfall , InExtremo , Subway to Sally , especially in the 80s and 90s . Even today the rock factory is an institution that is known throughout Germany.

International successes (amateurs)

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight, then up to 1968 over 97 kg body weight and from 1969 over 100 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1965	2.	Klippan tournament	GR	Heavy	behind Ragnar Svensson , Sweden , in front of Miodrag Citakovic, Yugoslavia
1965	3.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	GR	Heavy	behind Nikolai Schmakow and Anatoli Roschtschin , both USSR
1966	2.	Klippan tournament	GR	Heavy	behind Ragnar Svensson, in front of Walter Kleemann, Denmark
1966	4th	EM in Essen	GR	S.	with victories over Bekir Aksu, Turkey , Josef Schummer, Luxembourg , a draw against Petr Kment , Czechoslovakia, and Anatoli Roschtschin , USSR, and one defeat against István Kozma , Hungary
1968	5.	EM in Västerås	GR	Heavy	with a win against Raymond Uyttergaeghe, Belgium , and a draw against Edward Wojda, Poland , Ragnar Svensson , Sweden , and Anatoli Kochnew , USSR
1968	6th	EM in Skopje	F.	Heavy	with a win over Bruno Jutzeler, Switzerland , a draw against Arne Robertsson , Sweden, and László Nyers, Hungary , and a loss against Alexander Medwed , USSR
1968	11.	OS in Mexico City	GR	Heavy	with a tie against Ragnar Svensson and defeats against Anatoli Roschtschin , USSR, and Stefan Petrow, Bulgaria
1969	1.	Klippan tournament	GR	Super heavy	before Anatoli Kotschnew, USSR, Jürgen Klinge , GDR, and Arne Robertsson , Sweden
1970	1.	EM in Berlin (East)	GR	Super heavy	with victories over Raimo Karlsson, Finland , József Csatári , Hungary, Wojda, Kotschnew and Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria, and a draw against Petr Kment , CSSR
1970	7th	World Cup in Edmonton	GR	Super heavy	with victory over Istvan Semeredi, Yugoslavia , a draw against Roschtschin and a loss against Tomov
1972	4th	EM in Katowice	GR	Super heavy	with victories over Karl Bachmann, Switzerland, Giuseppe Marcucci, Italy , and Raimo Karlsson and one defeat against Victor Dolipschi , Romania ; then resigned due to injury

German championships

year	space	Age group	style	Weight class	Result
1961	2.	Youth A	F.	over 79 kg body weight	behind Heinz Kiehl , Oggersheim , in front of Jürgen Schaubruch, Weisenau , and Arthur Kopp, Ravensburg
1962	1.	Youth A	F.	over 79 kg body weight	before Karl-Heinz Lindenau, Berlin , and Manfred Schumann, Bonn -Duisdorf
1962	1.	Juniors	F.	Heavy	before Werner Burghard, Brötzingen, and Berthold Stickler, Kahl
1963	3.	Seniors	F.	Heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich , Schifferstadt , and Heinz Volb, Eckenheim
1965	1.	Juniors	GR	Heavy	before Gerd Volz , Oggersheim, and H. Krumrück, Schwenningen
1965	2.	Seniors	F.	Heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich and in front of Helmut Löw, Nuremberg
1966	2.	Seniors	F.	Heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich and in front of Heinz Eichelbaum , Witten
1966	2.	Seniors	GR	Heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich and in front of Heinz Eichelbaum
1968	1.	Seniors	F.	Heavy	before Josef Gammel, Munich , and Heinz Eichelbaum
1968	3.	Seniors	GR	Heavy	behind Heinz Eichelbaum and Horst Schwarz , Untertürkheim
1969	1.	Seniors	F.	Super heavy	before Heinz Eichelbaum and Gerd Volz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
1969	1.	Seniors	GR	Super heavy	before Horst Schwarz and Gerd Volz
1970	2.	Seniors	GR	Super heavy	behind Horst Schwarz and in front of Josef Gammel
1971	2.	Seniors	GR	Super heavy	behind Horst Schwarz and in front of Josef Gammel
1972	1.	Seniors	GR	Super heavy	before Horst Schwarz and Jürgen Bethmann

literature

• Athletics magazine from 1962 to 1972
• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 221 u. 232
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976

Web links

• Profile of Roland Bock at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Hurricane Rosie at filmportal.de
• Roland Bock in the Genickbruch.com database

• Profile on Cagematch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Difficult times for Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg: “Today people are looking for something special” . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on January 22, 2017]).
2. ↑ Rockfabrik-Ludwigsburg.de - More rock than everyone else! Retrieved January 22, 2017 .