Willy Quatuor

Quatuor, Willy
Data
Birth Name	Quatuor, Willy
Weight class	Featherweight, lightweight
nationality	Germany
birthday	February 20, 1937
place of birth	Dortmund
Date of death	19th January 2017
style	Southpaw
Combat Statistics
Struggles	79
Victories	64
Knockout victories	32
Defeats	10
draw	5
Profile in the BoxRec database

Willy Quatuor (born February 20, 1937 in Dortmund ; † January 19, 2017 ) was a German boxer . He was the European lightweight professional champion.

Career

Willy Quatuor became a professional boxer at the age of 18 after a short, but in the regional West German area, quite successful amateur time with the pugilists (FK) 27 Dortmund. His manager became one of the most famous managers in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time , Wolfgang Müller, and his trainer was Otto Bürger.

Willy Quatuor played his first professional fight on September 4, 1955 in Dortmund and came to a knockout victory in the 4th round over Hermann Lewandowski. He fought his next fights mainly in West Germany. On December 30, 1956 he suffered his first defeat in Dortmund against Alfred Schweer from Bochum , a former German amateur champion. On January 11, 1958, he won in Dortmund in the fight for the German featherweight championship over Alfred Schweer after 12 rounds on points.

During his entire professional career, Willy Quatuor was always forced to accept offers from all over Europe , which were reasonably profitable, but which involved many risks . The reason for this was that the fees that were paid in Germany for boxers in the lower weight classes (fly, bantam, feather and lightweight) were so low even for top experts that these boxers could hardly make a living from it. Quatuor felt the same way. He was originally a window cleaner, but worked his way up to a commercial clerk and for a long time, in addition to his boxing career, also worked as a sales representative.

The extremely talented Quatuor, equipped with a perfect sense of movement, was a brother of the German master of amateurs and the professionals Werner Mundt . Nevertheless, he made the leap to the top in his career in Europe and even reached for the world title.

Of course it took a while. First he boxed on April 10, 1958 in Milan and on January 15, 1960 in Melbourne against the Italian-born Australian Aldo Pravisani twice in a draw. On January 8, 1959, however, he had to accept a bitter knockout defeat in Rome from Sergio Capriari in the 4th round. In the years 1958 to 1961 he successfully defended his German featherweight championship against Alfred Schweer, Joe Buck, Edgar Basel and Fritz Rings. On September 30, he celebrated a convincing victory on points in Milan against the Italian Mario Sitri and on October 27, 1961 he beat Aldo Pravisani in the fourth round in Melbourne in the third encounter between the two rivals.

On May 22, 1963 Quatuor was German lightweight champion in Munich by a knockout victory in the 9th round over Karl Furcht from Cologne , after he had voluntarily resigned his featherweight title because of weight problems. On May 8, 1964, he fought in Berlin against the Italian Michele Gullotti for the vacant European lightweight title and won in the 14th round by knockout. After almost nine years of professional time, he was finally European champion .

On March 27, 1965, Quatuor scored a remarkable point victory in Dortmund in a non-title fight against the strong Finn Olli Mäki and on December 26, 1965 he succeeded in defending his title in Berlin with a point victory over the Spaniard Juan Albornez . Also on May 18, 1966, he successfully defended his title against Piero Brandi in Arezzo , Italy, with a knockout victory in the 8th round.

On November 16, 1967 Quatuor then got the chance in Tokyo against the American of Japanese origin Paul Fuji for the world championship title of the WBC and the WBA in the lightweight box. Unfortunately, he was very unlucky in this fight, because after a balanced course he suffered a gaping eyebrow injury from a headbutt of Fuji's in the 4th lap, because of which he could no longer box. This made Fuji world champion .

In 1968 Quatuor put down the European championship title and the German championship title in lightweight because of renewed weight problems. On March 8, 1968, however, he won in Cologne over Klaus Klein after 12 rounds on points and thus became German welterweight champion. On January 24, 1969, he then tried to become European welterweight champion against Bruno Arcari in Rome . The end of the fight in the 7th round was dramatic and controversial, because Quatuor was counted in this round after a forbidden blow to the neck of Arcaris, which the referee ignored. All the protests of Quatuor and his manager Wolfgang Müller were of no use. The EBU declared the result to be legal and confirmed Bruno Arcari as European champion.

His last fight played Quatuor on June 4, 1970 in Copenhagen , which he lost to the Dane Börge Krogh on points.

Despite his successful career, Quatuor did not get rich from boxing; if he had achieved his success as a heavyweight, he would have been a made man financially.

After boxing

Willy Quatuor continued to work as a sales representative after boxing. For many years he trained the amateur boxers of BC Viktoria Dortmund , who fought very successfully in the German Bundesliga. Even when he was over 60, he trained once a week with his old Dortmund boxing friends such as Rolf Peters u. v. a. in the catacombs of Dortmund's Westfalenhalle.

Others

Willy Quatuor was Werner Mundt's brother , the latter taking the name of his father who died in the war, and his brother, who was two years older, his mother's maiden name.

literature

• Box Sport trade magazine from 1955 to 1970
• Sport-Illustrierte , No. 3 of February 3, 1969, pages 27 to 31

Web links

• Willy Quatuor in the BoxRec database
• Willy Quatuor in the BoxRec Encyclopaedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willie Quatuor vs. Karl Furcht on BoxRec