[Rocco Del Sesto]

Roland Graetz - HW - Germany
Career Record: W10(KO 3) / L11(KO 4) / D6

LHW Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto back in Feb 2005. Not sure now why I had him as a LHW. Rerated as Heavyweight which BoxRec and other accounts of him list him as.

sportnote.com has Graetz' DOB as Oct 14, 1936 and born in Zanzin, Poland.Fighting out of Hamburg, Germany

June 1964 Ring - Fritz Lexmaul, 179 retired after a knockdown in the second round against Roland Graetz, 188.

July 1964 Ring - This Ring account of Roland Graetz, 184 fought a 4 round decision win in Hamberg on 4/10/64, against Manfred Ackers, 181. BoxRec lists this fight for Graetz being against a Siegried Ackers.

Oct 1964 Ring - This Ring account of Roland Gaetz, 180 decisioned Manfred Ackers, 206 in 6 rounds.

Jan 1965 Ring - 10/1/64, Roland Graetz, 182 was hurt bad by Carl Welschou's, 202 right hand in the first round, but, Graetz fought back and knocked Welschou down twice in the fifth and then Welschou's corner threw in the towel.

March 1965 Ring - This account of Roland Graetz', 182, 3rd round knock out of Willi Holweg on 11/14/64. It mentions that Graetz was several times a provisional champion in the amateurs.

April 1965 Ring - On 01/06/65, Lennart Risberg, forced a 6th round stoppage against Roland Graetz in this heavyweight match after flooring Graetz twice.

July 1965 Ring - 0n 03/19/65, Dante Cane who was 2 stones heavier than Roland Graetz, forced Graetz to retire in the 3rd round.

Jan 1966 Ring - Roland Graetz, 178 carrued a furious comeback in this fight that some felt gave him a draw, but Manfred Markgraf, 222 still gained the 4 round decision.

02/17/67 Boxing News - Lists 02/04/67 fight at St. Quentin, Paul Roux winning 10 round points over Rolf Graetz. The May 1967 Ring Magazine gives an account of Paul Roux winning a decision over Paul Gratz over 10 rounds?! It says Gratz or if it's Roland or Rolf Graetz, was a southpaw and the Roux didn't have much problem with that and floored Graetz or Gratz four times in the final round.

June 1967 Ring - In some fights of different weight classes at Herford, Roland Graetz and Peter Donner are listed as Light heavyweights and drew 6 rounds. Donner in BoxRec is listed as a light heavyweight with some fights, his weight is LHW range. So possibly Graetz fought some light heavy. Maybe early records on Graetz in BoxRec listed him LHW and why I did original rating as such.

Sept 1967 Ring - Fight against Rudolf Nehring names Roland as Gratz. Ring was getting different spellings of Graetz' name.

Oct 1967 Ring - Mentions Roland Graetz' fight in Innsbruk as against Anders Hoger (Franz Hoeger in BoxRec). Also notes Heavyweight Roland Graetz' 8 round decision over Manfred Ackers at Krefeld later in July.

Dec 1967 Ring - The Sept 1, 1967 fight between Peter Donner and Roland Graetz, the short account again mentions both fighters as light heavyweights.

Jan 1968 Ring - The Sept 20, 1967 fight with Peter Weiland won by Weiland on points in 8, Roland's last name is again shown as Gratz. Ring couldn't make up it's mind what to call Roland.

Remainder of Ring accounts of Graetz fight again just who won/lost and they vary between calling him Graetz and Gratz!!