Tom Bogs

Bogs, Tom
Data
Birth Name	Bogs, Tom
Weight class	Middleweight, light heavyweight
nationality	Danish
birthday	November 21, 1944
place of birth	Christianshavn
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.78 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	86
Victories	77
Knockout victories	27
Defeats	7th
draw	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Tom Bogs (born November 21, 1944 in Christianshavn ) is a former Danish boxer . He was European champion of professional boxers in the middle and light heavyweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Tom Bogs started boxing at the Christianshavn IK boxing club at the age of 10 . In addition, he was also active as a track and field athlete, because his father was the Danish champion in the shot put from 1947 to 1950. But then he concentrated entirely on boxing and learned the profession of bricklayer.

At the age of 16 he was junior welterweight champion in Copenhagen and a year later also Danish junior welterweight champion. At the Danish senior championship he was in the light middleweight division for the first time in the final battle in 1963, which he lost to Leif Schmücker. In 1964 he was then Danish light middleweight champion. He was then sent to Tokyo for the Olympic Games that year . In Tokyo he won his round of 16 fight against Bai Sun Chen from Taiwan by knocking out in the first round, but then lost in the quarter-finals against Nigerian Nojim Maiyegun with the same result, was eliminated from the Olympic boxing tournament, but finished with three other boxers honorable 5th place. Then Tom Bogs switched to professional boxers. As an amateur he had contested 77 fights, of which he had won 71, he lost only seven fights.

Profile career

Tom Bogs signed a professional contract with the Danish manager and promoter Mogens Palle in 1964. Tom Bogs played his first professional fight on November 5, 1964 in Copenhagen . He defeated the French Daniel Brotin by knockout in the 2nd round. Tom Bogs initially boxed almost exclusively in Copenhagen and Aalborg . He celebrated 57 wins in a row over the next few years. Only in his 58th professional fight, in which he boxed in a draw on February 12, 1970 in Copenhagen against the US world number boxer Don Fullmer , he was not victorious. In those years Tom Bogs also defeated the German boxers Manfred Hass from Misburg (on March 12, 1965 in Copenhagen), Heini Freytag (on March 3, 1966 in Copenhagen) and others. Klaus Stockmann from Kiel (on May 2, 1968 in Copenhagen).

On September 12, 1968 Tom Bogs got the chance to box against the German European champion Lothar Stengel from Kaiserslautern for his EBU European Championship light heavyweight title. The fight took place in Copenhagen and Tom Bogs sent Lothar Stengel to the ground three times in the first round, after which Stengel had to be taken out of the ring unable to defend. The EBU's new light heavyweight European champion was Tom Bogs.

Tom Bogs defended this title on January 28, 1969 in Copenhagen against the dangerous and physically extremely strong Italian Piero del Papa . Bogs had to go with del Papa over the full fighting time of 15 rounds, but kept the upper hand on points. On September 11, 1969 Tom Bogs fought in Copenhagen against the Italian Carlo Duran from Argentina for the European middleweight title. He won this fight after 15 rounds on points. Since he was aiming for a world championship fight in middleweight against the Argentine Carlos Monzón in the future , Tom Bogs put down his European title in the light heavyweight division and kept the middleweight division.

First he defended this title on December 7, 1969 in Aarhus by a techn. KO victory in the 4th round over the Italian Luigi Patruno and on April 2, 1970 in Copenhagen by a techn. Successful knockout victory in the 11th round over the Briton Les McAteer . On June 4, 1970, Tom Bogs fought in Copenhagen against the multiple world champion in the world and middleweight division, the American Emile Griffith for the right to challenge world champion Carlos Monzon. Griffith sent Tom Bogs to the ground in the 6th and 8th round and won this fight clearly on points. Tom Bogs' hopes of a world championship fight were dashed.

But he did not give up and defeated Christopher Finnegan from England on August 27, 1970 in Copenhagen when he grabbed the European Championship title over 15 rounds by clear points. On December 4, 1970, Tom Bogs defended the EBU European Championship title against Carlo Duran in Rome. With the support of the Italian crowd, Duran won this fight after 15 rounds just on points and thus dethroned Tom Bogs. Tom Bogs was still aiming for a world championship fight and defeated on the way there on February 11, 1971 in a revenge meeting Don Fullmer safely on points.

On August 19, 1972, Tom Bogs had reached his goal. His manager was able to bring Carlos Monzon to Copenhagen to defend his title. In Idraetspark Monzon and Bogs faced each other in a fight in which it was about the WBC and the WBA world title in the middleweight division. Monzon proved too strong for Bogs in this fight. He sent this to the ground three times in the 5th round, whereupon this fight was canceled by referee Harry Gibbs in favor of Carlos Monzon.

Tom Bogs was not irritated by this defeat and won on January 8, 1973 in Copenhagen by a point victory after 15 rounds over the Italian Fabio Bettini again the European title in the middleweight division. He failed but on March 12, 1974 in London while trying to become European light heavyweight champion against the young Briton John Conteh , because he lost this fight through techn. KO in the 7th round.

After this defeat, Tom Bogs fought five more times. He lost it on August 17 in Johannesburg in the light heavyweight division against the South African Pierre Fourie on points. When he lost on November 21, 1974 in Copenhagen against the American Tom Bethea on points, he resigned.

After boxing

Tom Bogs worked in a 1970 film by Edwin Fleming. He trained to become a master mason and ran a construction company in Copenhagen. He married in 1982 and had six children over the next few years. In 2002 Bogs was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Danish Sports . In 2005 a biography of Tom Bogs by Jorn Mader was published with the title Mesterbokseren .

literature

• Box Sport trade journal from 1963 to 1974
• Box Almanach 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980

Web links

• Tom Bogs in the BoxRec database
• Battle record by Tom Bogs with photo
• Tom Bogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"