Willi Fischer (boxer)

Willi Fischer
Data
Birth Name	Wilhelm Fischer
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	August 26, 1972
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	43
Victories	36
Knockout victories	23
Defeats	6th
draw	1

Willi "de Ox" Fischer (born August 26, 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German heavyweight professional boxer .

amateur

The trained construction mechanic was considered one of the best German super heavyweights until he switched to the professional camp in 1995. As an amateur, he became German Junior Champion in 1989 and 1990. Fischer also won the European Junior Championship in Aussig in 1990 and took third place at the World Junior Championship in Lima that same year .

He took part for Germany in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , but failed in the quarter-finals against the Bulgarian Swilen Russinow. In 1994 he got two third places in major international tournaments, he was defeated by Russian Alexei Lesin in the semi-finals of the Military World Cup in Tunis and Oleg Maskayev in the World Cup in Bangkok .

Professional career

On July 8, 1995, he made his professional debut and was 1996 International German Heavyweight Champion. He held the title with interruptions until 1999. Between 1996 and 1999, “de Ox” had memorable wrestling matches with Kim Weber , Mario Schießer and ex-cruiserweight world champion Vincent Boulware. On September 26, 1998, he went on as the number one led challenger against the British WBO title holder Herbie Hide . The fight received little attention in Germany and Fischer was taken out of the fight by the referee after one minute and four seconds in the second round after he was knocked to the ground by Hide three times.

With this defeat, the heavyweight's long descent began, he lost fights against Timo Hoffmann , René Monse and Andreas Sidon . In 2000 and 2003 he was punished for violating the doping regulations of the BDB with longer competition bans. After serving his first suspension, Fischer returned successfully to the ring when he defeated the Kenyan Joseph-Mukungo Akhasamba with a points win in 2001. He won the insignificant world championship belt of the WBB Association, but was followed by a twelve-month injury break and then the second doping ban.

In the summer of 2005, he managed a narrow point victory over Vlado Szabo, a handpicked opponent. In November 2005, Willi Fischer finally announced his resignation as a professional boxer.

Comeback 2007

On July 6, 2007, Willi Fischer returned to the ring after two years of inactivity at an Arena Box Promotion event . In a fight over six rounds, he won against Alexander Mileiko on points. Fischer's manager was now Olaf Schröder from Fight-Production from Bielefeld. This was followed by more points wins against Aleksejs Kosobokovs and Tomas Mrazek as well as a knockout victory against Edgar Kalnars. On March 20, 2009 he was supposed to box against the reigning German champion (interim) Sebastian Köber , but had to cancel due to an injury.

On October 24th, 2009 Fischer was supposed to fight Francois Botha for the WTB Association's world title in Dessau . Due to an inflammation of the biceps tendon and rotator cuff on both shoulders, he had to cancel the fight and finally ended his boxing career.

successes

International German champion 1996–1999

1997 WBO Intercontinental Champion

WBB World Champion 2001

Web links

• Willi Fischer in the BoxRec database
• - Portrait of a deserved CSC boxer