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Heavyweights who fought in International Titles
Here's another one from the HW's I'm working on that fought in various international title fights. Another decent looking German fighter from the mid 50's to early 60's.
Hans Kalbfell -2 Overall Rating
Nationality- Germany
b. 1930-05-16
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Career, 1955-61
BoxRec. 012482
Record 26 wins / 9 losses / 1 draws / 19 KO
Kalbfell's career started out 14-0-0 against the mostly usual array of nobody's. He did beat in consecutive fights though Alain Chervill, KO'd Robert Eugene and Ko'd Werner Wiegand, another pretty good German and beat Frenchman Robert Duquesne before the Cherville fights.
In November, 1956 Kalbfell lost for the first time, an 8 round decision to Frenchman, Robert Duquesne. In 1957 he won the German Heavyweight Title by an 8th round TKO over Heinz Neuhaus. In 1958 he lost that title to Albert Westphal by a 5th round TKO, but then regained the title from Westphal, beating him in 1959 with a 10th round KO. In March 1960, Han's squared off against Dick Richardson for the then vacant European Heavyweight Title. Richardson won by TKO in the 13th. The two fought a rematch a year later with Richardson winning again, this time a 15 round decision.
In June 1961 he lost again to Albert Westphal for the German HW Title and then to Erich Schoppner(32-0-3 at the time), former German and European LHW Champion who'd stepped up and took Westphal's German HW Title, lost another chance at the German Title. Both those losses were 12 round decisions. That Schoppner fight ended Kalbfell's career.
Other noteable fights in Kalbfell's career included wins over Federico Friso and Tommy(Hurricane) Jackson and losses to Archie Moore, a non title fight to Dick Richardson, Henry Cooper and Mino Bozzano.
Kalbfell was stopped only 3 times in his career, all 3 TKO's.
I simmed him against all his opponents I currently have in my data base which comes to 19 fights and then the other 17 in each 36 bout set I put him up against 1-2 rated HW's which looks like a good range of what else he fought.
Good average results I got.
Enjoy......
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