Wilfried Sauerland (born 29 February 1940 in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "'' Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

) is a German boxing promoter and manager. He was inducted into the

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in 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2015

Career

Boxing camps associated with Sauerland, have had various locations:

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with

Manfred Wolke Manfred Wolke (born 14 January 1943 in Babelsberg, Brandenburg) is a German former welterweight boxer. He was a member of the ''Armeesportsklub Vorwärts Frankfurt an der Oder''. Wolke, representing East Germany, was the Welterweigh ...

and

Rudi Fink Rudi Fink (born 6 June 1958) is a retired boxer, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division (−57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Biography Fink took up boxing at the age of nine. He won the national title in ...

(2003),

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with

Ulli Wegner Ulli Wegner (born 26 April 1942, in Stettin) is a German Boxing Coach and a former Amateur boxer. Biography Ulli Wegner grew up in former East Germany, where he first learned to box. He had a total of 176 amateur fights: between 1961 and 1963 ...

(1996–2004), and in

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with

, since 2004.His sons now run the boxing promotional business.

Current boxers

Previous boxers *

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* Dustin Dirks *

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* Oktay Urkal *

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* Ruediger May *

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* George Groves *

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* Artur Mann *

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* Oscar Ahlin *

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* Tomi Honka * Oliver Flodin * Mikkel Nielsen * Abdul Khattab *

Dennis Ceylan Dennis Ceylan (born 3 March 1989, Høje Tåstrup, Denmark) is a Danish professional boxer. He was born in Høje Taastrup, but grew up in Aarhus and is a member of boxing club BK Aarhus. Ceylan is a former EBU European featherweight champion. As ...

* Tim-Robin Lihaug * Burak Sahin * Araik Marutjan *

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* Hadi Srour * Albon Pervizaj * Mikael Lawal * Frederik Hede Jensen *

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* Kem Ljungquist

References

External links

Biography in German
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