Rudi Wagener

Rudi Wagener
Data
Birth Name	Rudolf Wagener
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	February 17, 1899
place of birth	Ruhrort
Date of death	4th October 1963
Place of death	Aplerbeck
size	1.92 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	86
Victories	53
Knockout victories	46
Defeats	26th
draw	7th

Rudi Wagener (born February 17, 1899 in Ruhrort , † October 4, 1963 in Aplerbeck ) was a German heavyweight boxer .

Life

He began his career as an amateur boxer and was German heavyweight champion in 1920 and 1922 .

He later switched to the professional camp. His greatest success was winning the German heavyweight championship in May 1927 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle against Hans Breitensträter , to whom he was knocked out in the first round in an earlier encounter in 1924. He lost this title on April 4, 1929 in the Schöneberg Sports Palace in Berlin by losing points to Ludwig Haymann from Munich.

On May 11, 1928, he lost his only fight outside of Europe against Clayton "Big Boy" Peterson in New York's Madison Square Garden . Other well-known opponents of Wagener were Paul Samson-Körner , Franz Diener , Hans Schönrath, Walter Neusel and Richard Grupe.

He married Felicitas Wiesel in Dresden during the Second World War and Rita Assa in the 1950s in Dortmund . He owned the restaurant “Sportzentrale” in Dortmund and a little later in Aplerbeck the restaurant “To the last round”.

Web links

Rudi Wagener in the BoxRec database