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January 1958
Busy past week! Not much time at the computer but finally got some this evening!
Saturday 12 October 1957
Festhalle
Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
boxer lbs record boxer lbs record
Hans Friedrich 28 14 6 L Heinz Neuhaus 40 7 6 PTS 10/10
Heavyweight
Erich Schoppner 173¾ 16 0 1 W Artenio Calzavara 174 31 6 4 PTS 10/10
Light Heavyweight
Rocco Mazzola 13 1 1 W Uwe Janssen 17 4 3 PTS 8/8
Erich Walter 15 3 2 W Giancarlo Brusa 12 5 3 PTS 6/6
Manfred Schneider 8 2 2 W Albert Duscha 6 5 3 PTS 6/6
Heavyweight
Ulli Ritter 2 0 0 L Ossi Buettner 3 3 3 PTS 6/6
Heavyweight
JANUARY 1958 RING- A big guys night in Frankfurt Germany. First up we’ll call in Erich Schoppner and Artenio Calzavara. These two light heavyweights were on the opposite ends of their careers with Schoppner 25 at the time sporting a 16-0-1 11KO record while Calzavara was nearing the back end of his but at the pinnacle of it. While Schoppner was coming in undefeated the meeting with Calzavara was his first real name challenge with the exception of middleweight Albert Finch 72(21KO)-21-9 whom Schoppner earned an 8 round points win over. Calzavara was 31-6-4 had held the Italian Light Heavyweight title for year now and had just defeated Gerhard Hecht in July in a 15 round decision for the European light heavy title though according to one of two short articles in this 1958 January Ring edition, that win over Hecht “was disputed”. In that same article it noted that Schoppner’s win over Calzavara was a clear and easy 10 round victory. The other account of this fight noted that Schoppner’s win over Finch back in February of that year was lustily booed by the crowd for getting the decision. The article though noted that Schoppner kept on winning bouts over “second raters” before getting his first big chance against Calzavara. The fight was close for several rounds before Schoppner started to loose some of his edge by the 8th but then he used hooks and jabs to put Calzavara on the defense over the last two rounds to earn Schoppner a clear victory heartily cheered by the 10,000+ crowd at the Festhalle. This was Schoppner’s turn to the lime light of the light heavy division at least in Europe, going on to win the German and European light heavy crowns. He never got his chance though at Archie Moore for the world title. It will be interesting to read more later about Schoppner’s career on forward. For Calzavara though this turned out to be the beginning of the end as he ended up finishing 1-6-3 including his last two fights being 8 round draws with Domenico Baccheschi and then Pekka Kokkonen.
Both of these fighters are in the official TB2013 data base. I’ve updated a little info on them. The Schoppner file I’ve attached you see is spelled Schoppner. The file in TB it’s spelled Schoeppner. BoxRec shows him as Schoppner along with the accounts I’ve seen in Ring thus far along with other accounts about him on the internet. Interesting that the photo on his file in BoxREc has a title under it spelling it Schoeppner. I’ve chosen at this point Schoppener. I did a couple test runs of Schoppener. I’ve got all but about 6 of his career opponents in my data base. The results I was getting were very good. Think the current rating is pretty right on so didn’t alter that any. The Calzavara file though I changed some. I increased his HP to 5 to get his KO’s to come out better. I lowered though then his Control ratings from 8 to 5! His overall remained at 4 so his record was coming out pretty close to actual with KO’s better. Part of the fun of this game playing with the ratings and see how they come out.
TITLE BOUT 2013 - When I was doing my play testing for both fighters, results were much Schoppner winning 9 out 10 bouts with around 2KO’s. So that was good considering they fought to that 10 round decision in 1957. In my replay bout, Schoppner takes a 10 round decision again! Two score cards give Erich as clean 98-93 scores while the third is close at 96-95 but good for a unanimous decision for the German!
Looking forward to going through the rest of this card put on in Frankfurt back in October 1957. Think I have pretty much all of the over fighters present in my DB. Be out unavailable again to the computer the next couple nights but hope to spend some time later in the week/weekend on this rest of this interesting set of European HW's and LHW's.
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