Karl Mildenberger

Karl Mildenberger ( born November 23, 1937 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German European boxing champion and world number.

He boxed in the atypical for his time right delivery. Mildenberger graduated in his after winning the German Amateur Championship title of 1958 started professional career 1958-1969 62 fights, of which he won 53 ( 20 of them by knockout ), three boxed a draw and lost six.

Boxing career

The European title he won in the second round in his 45th fight against Sante Amonti on October 17, 1964 in Berlin by KO in the first round after his first European Championship bout on February 24, 1962 against Dick Richardson in Dortmund it by KO was inferior in round 1. After this " flash knockout loss " Mildenberger was one all the time as " Charles the Flat " sneered.

1966 defeated Mildenberger the long-standing world ranking boxer Eddie Make that does not klarkam with the right delivery of his opponent. Karl Milde Bergers probably the most important battle took place in Frankfurt Forest Stadium on September 10, 1966. On this day the Palatinate European champions delivered before 45,000 spectators the heavyweight world champion Muhammad Ali in the twelfth round up a great fight and made the world champion hard to create. He sat Ali, especially in the sixth and seventh round with his dreaded left under pressure. However, after a severe laceration above his left eye took the referee Mildenberger in the twelfth round of the fight. "It was my hardest fight since winning the title against Sonny Liston ," Ali said after his sixth successful title defense and announced that he would never want to fight again against Karl Mildenberger.

Six times defended Mildenberger his European title successfully. at the

When Muhammad Ali was stripped of his 1967 title, Mildenberger was another world ranking first. However, in a World Cup qualification campaign, he suffered against the Argentinian Oscar Bonavena on September 16, 1967 in Frankfurt a heavy defeat after twelve rounds and went there four times to the ground. In September 1968 Mildenberger lost by disqualification in the eighth round against English "British Empire Heavyweight Champion" Henry Cooper and finally retired the following year from boxing.

After the pit

After ending his playing career, Karl Mildenberger always remained his sporting aspects in life faithfully. This was reflected in a job as a lifeguard at the Sports and Pool Office in Kaiserslautern resist, which he held until high retirement age.

His knowledge and experience to the sport of boxing, he gave the Boxabteilung his hometown Kaiserslautern on. There he engaged today volunteer to the next generation.

For large boxing events in Germany, for example, in the championship fights Axel Schulz, he was and is to see again and again.

In the Germany premiere of the movie Ali in Riesa the counterparty from 1966 was also a guest and met Ali again after many years. Here, the severely ill Ali called him again even out to a little sparring.

Karl Mildenberger lives in Kaiserslautern.

Honors

  • 2003: Merit of the State of Rhineland- Palatinate
  • 2007: City of Silver Medal of the City of Kaiserslautern

Others

The fight Mild Bergers against American Archie McBride, on Friday, 25 January 1963 at the Berlin Sports Palace should have taken place, has been postponed by the organizers as a precaution one day, because you had to fear that the audience would not occur this evening. The reason was a television program, namely the broadcasting of the sixth and final episode of the detective film Tim Frazer by Francis Durbridge, who actually reached an audience of 93%.

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