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You were 22 years when you made your professional debut. Now you
are 36 and looking back on a very eventful career with many
highs and lows. If you could turn back the time, what would you
like to change the most?
Basically I wouldn’t do anything different, and besides its
useless to think about it. Yes, you can truely say my career had
a lot of highs and lows and I really could have done without
some of those lows…
After 14 years as a prizefighter – is the motivation still there
as it was?
I would be a bad professional if I didn’t have enough
motivation, wouldn’t I? My current environment strengthens and
supports me big-time in my plans and I believe Tom, (fitnesscoach)
Boris (Schwarz), (mentalcoach) Matthias (Werner) and (manager)
Olaf (Schröder) know that I am doing everything to achieve our
mutual dreams.
We talked about the lows, but tell us spontaneously what the
most memorable moments of your career were!
For me it was absolutely fantastic to participate in the 1992
Olympic Games in Barcelona. Two years earlier I was European
champion as a junior and in the same year won the bronze medal
at the world juniors in Peru. These were indeed unique moments
that I will always remember.
Would the next loss spell the end of your ring career or do you
plan, regardless of results, to fight on for a few more years?
Beforehand I never think about losing, never. And besides, at
the current moment of my career I really can’t afford to waist
anymore time thinking about such things…
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