Piet Crous

Petrus Arnoldus Crous ( born July 2, 1955 in Johannesburg ) is a former South African boxer and was the 1984/85 world cruiserweight champion of the WBA.

Professional career

Crous was on 14 November 1977 22 -year-old made ​​his debut as a professional boxer. In Johannesburg he beat his compatriot Barend Steyn in the first of four scheduled rounds ko In the following years he achieved even more knockout victories, but mostly against boxers who had played just one or two fights. On November 2, 1981, Crous South African champion in the light heavyweight division after he had defeated in Cape Town Doug Lumley. This track he could still defend several times.

On 1 December 1984 came in Sun City for the World Cup cruiserweight fight against Ossie Ocasio of Puerto Rico, who was able to defend the WBA title three times. Crous won the fight and became world champion. On March 30, 1985 Piet Crous defended his title against American Randy Stephens by TKO in the third round. In July of the same year Crous competed against the former light heavyweight world champion Dwight Qawi from the United States. Piet Crous went in the eleventh round twice to the ground and then lost prematurely by TKO This defeat was followed by three more wins. After his defeat on May 16, 1987 compared Freddie Rafferty (South Africa) Crous ended his professional career as a boxer after ten years.

It is noteworthy that Crous all his fights in his home country of South Africa fought out, which is probably because he had only fought against almost countrymen. His world championship fights wore Piet Crous all from Super Bowl of Sun City.