Wilfried Sauerland (born 29 February 1940 in

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) 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 (1996–2004), and in

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

Current boxers

Previous boxers *

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* Ahmad Kaddour *

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* Alexander Frenkel *

Alexander Povetkin Alexander Vladimirovich "Sasha" Povetkin (russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Пове́ткин; born 2 September 1979) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2021. He held the WBA (Regular) heav ...

* Axel Schulz *

Cecilia Brækhus Cecilia Carmen Linda Brækhus (born 28 September 1981) is a Norwegian professional boxer and former kickboxer. In boxing she reigned as the undisputed female welterweight champion from 2014 to 2020, and is the first woman in any weight class to h ...

* Chisanda Mutti *

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* David Haye * Dustin Dirks * Edmund Gerber *

Eduard Gutknecht Eduard Gutknecht (born 19 March 1982) is a German former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2016. He won the European light-heavyweight title in 2011, making three successful defences before losing it to Jürgen Brähmer in 2013. Gut ...

* Enad Licina *

Francesco Pianeta Francesco Pianeta (born 8 October 1984) is an Italian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2018. He challenged for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and '' The Ring'' heavyweight championship in 2013, the WBA (Regular) title in 20 ...

Henry Akinwande Henry Adetokunboh Akinwande (born 12 October 1965) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2008. He held the WBO heavyweight title from 1996 to 1997, as well as the Commonwealth heavyweight title in 1993, and the Eur ...

Henry Maske Henry Maske (, ; born 6 January 1964) is a German former professional boxer and one of Germany's most popular sports figures. He held the IBF light heavyweight title from 1993 until 1996. Amateur career Maske was born in Treu ...

Jack Culcay Jack Robert Culcay-Keth (born 26 September 1985) is an Ecuadorian-born German professional boxer. As an amateur he represented Germany, fighting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and winning a silver medal at the 2008 E ...

John Mugabi John Mugabi (born March 4, 1960) is a Ugandan former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1991, and 1996 to 1999. He held the WBC super-welterweight title from 1989 to 1990, and challenged twice for world titles at middleweight, includi ...

* Karo Murat *

Marco Huck Muamer Hukić (born 11 November 1984), best known as Marco Huck, is a German professional boxer.. Retrieved 2015-12-01. He held the WBO cruiserweight title from 2009 to 2015, and is the joint-longest reigning cruiserweight world champion of all ...

Markus Beyer Markus Beyer (28 April 1971 – 3 December 2018) was a German professional boxer who won the WBC super middleweight title. As an amateur he represented Germany at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics in the light middleweight division. He also won a bron ...

Mikkel Kessler Mikkel Kessler (born 1 March 1979) is a Danish former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2013. He held multiple super-middleweight world championships, including the WBA title three times between 2004 and 2013, and the WBC title twic ...

* Nikolai Valuev * Oktay Urkal *

Oleh Platov Oleg Platov (born 8 April 1983 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who fought in the heavyweight division. Professional career Debut fight After leaving the amateurs ranks Platov was based ...

Robert Helenius Robert Gabriel Helenius (born 2 January 1984) is a Finnish professional boxer. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the European title twice between 2011 and 2016. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at ...

* Ruediger May * Sebastian Sylvester * Steve Cunningham *

Sven Ottke Sven Ottke (born 3 June 1967) is a German former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2004. He was a unified super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 1998 to 2004, and the WBA (Unified) title from 2003 to 200 ...

* Timo Hoffmann * Torsten May * Tyron Zeuge * Yoan Pablo Hernandez *

Željko Mavrović Željko Mavrović (; ; born 17 February 1969) is a Croatian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 1998. In 1998, as an undefeated challenger, he faced Lennox Lewis for the WBC heavyweight title, but lost in what would be his fin ...

* George Groves *

Enrico Kölling Enrico Kölling (born 27 February 1990), occasionally spelled Koelling or Kolling, is a German professional boxer who challenged for the IBF light-heavyweight title in 2017. Amateur career Youth Enrico Kölling started boxing at the age of 8. ...

* Artur Mann * Kubrat Pulev * Patrick Nielsen *

Anthony Ogogo Anthony Osejua Ojo Ogogo (born 24 November 1988) is an English professional wrestler and former professional boxer signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). As a boxer, he competed from 2013 to 2016 as a professional, and won a bronze medal in the ...

Noel Gevor Norair Mikaelian (born 18 September 1990), better known as Noel Gevor, is an Armenian-German professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization, WBO Youth world and WBO International Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight title in 2014 and ...

* Mikaela Laurén *

Otto Wallin Einar Otto Wallin (born 21 November 1990) is a Swedish professional boxer. He held the WBA Continental heavyweight title in 2017 and won the European Union heavyweight title in 2018. As of October 2022, Wallin is ranked as the world's sixth-be ...

Michael Wallisch Michael Wallisch (born 1 November 1985) is a German professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization, WBO European Heavyweight (boxing), heavyweight title from 2015 to 2016. Professional career On 11 July 2015 Wallisch won the vacant WB ...

* Oscar Ahlin * Stefan Härtel * Tomi Honka * Oliver Flodin * Mikkel Nielsen * Abdul Khattab * Dennis Ceylan * Tim-Robin Lihaug * Burak Sahin * Araik Marutjan * Micki Nielsen *

Anthony Yigit Anthony Yigit (born 1 September 1991) is a Swedish professional boxer who challenged for the IBF light welterweight title in 2018. As an amateur, following his success in 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships, Yigit qualified for the 2012 Su ...

* Nieky Holzken *

Klara Svensson Klara Svensson (born 15 October 1987) is a Swedish professional boxer. She held the WBC interim light-welterweight title from 2014 to 2015, the WBC interim welterweight title from September 2016 to February 2017, and challenged for the undisput ...

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

Zach Parker Zach Parker (born 2 June 1994) is a British professional boxer who held the British super-middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. Professional career Parker made his professional debut on 11 July 2015 against Lewis van Poetsch at the Chase L ...

Dina Thorslund Dina Thorslund (born 14 October 1993) is a Danish professional boxer. She is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO female super-bantamweight title since 2018 and the WBO female bantamweight title since June 2021. At region ...

* Kem Ljungquist

References

External links

Biography in German
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