The pages of Boxing historical books show that there was once another warrior who thought that he could defeat the world champion in heavyweight in his professional debut. Over half a century ago, Pete Rademacher had the same impossible sleep as Francis Ngannou. There were protests from the boxing authorities, the press and traditionalists, but in some way rademacher shot at the championships – and, what’s more, he had one amazing moment of success.

In 1953, Rademacher, whose grandmother came from Finland, was a former fighter, a former master of the sports union who withdrew to work at the Father Father’s Apple farm. The following year he joined the army and think about it. Rademacher decided not to finish boxing yet.

There was a lack of the Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki and he performed 1956 matches in Melbourne. Nokrywanie at the back secured the rademacher’s place in the American Olympic boxing team and once in Australia, the knockout was still coming.

Rademacher took all 147 seconds to Thrash Lev Mukhina in the final, abandoning him three times, and when the shouts died, Rademacher was asked about his future plans. Did he intend to become a professional? Rademacher, whose father, coat of arms fought professionally as Johnny Ray, had a month after 28^th Birthdays and replied: “I’m too vintage for that.”

Either he did not come up with his plan yet, or he did not want anyone to know what he was thinking. Because at some point Rademacher decided to change the professional and start an extremely ambitious offer for boxing immortality, perhaps within a few hours of getting gold.

A few hours after the rademacher triumphed in Melbourne, Floyd Patterson and Archie Moore fought for the heavyweight world championships, they left an empty retirement of Rocky Marciano.

Rademacher would explain his thinking many years later, saying: “If Patterson defeated Moore, Patterson is a adolescent punk child, and if Moore wins, he is an vintage man. I thought I could handle one of them because I knew mechanically just like all of them. “

Patterson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history at the age of 21, 10 months, 26 days, with a knockout in the fifth round of 42-year-old Moore, and Rademacher decided that he could beat him during a professional debut.

He talked to the manager Seattle, Jacek Hurley, who tried to discourage him from the idea, and the rademacher remembered how his mother also mocked him, telling him that he had to do too many blows, winning the Olympics. Rademacher held his plan and received the support of Joe Gannon, who survived the full eight rounds with Patterson in his professional career before he became a boxing inspector.

And most importantly, he found 22 businessmen who guarantee Patterson a handbag of USD 250,000 per fight, as well as USD 10,000 for themselves.

These numbers were interested in Cus d’AMATO, Patterson manager. D’Amato did not want to deal with warriors controlled by the International Boxing Club, a resolution that froze the best rivals, such as Nino Valdes, Eddie Machen and Zora Folley, and gave the rademacher a possible opening.

D’Amato knew that the idea of ​​fighting Rademacher would be considered absurd, saying to him: “They would stop us both in prison” before he asks: “Do you have any money?” Rademacher offered $ 150,000 that D’Amato gave him an raise of $ 100,000, and the claimant insisted that the fight began in Seattle.

He was informed “This was the only place in the United States that would allow.”

Patterson agreed to fight. “If this can damage my prestige, it certainly could not harm my bank balance,” he wrote in his autobiography.

The fight will take place on August 22, 1957 at the Sticks Stadium, the city’s basketball team, unless “Hurricane” (Tommy) Jackson had its own way. Patterson had to defend the title against him in a rematch 23 days before applying the rademacher fight.

Jackson’s fight was overshadowed by WHO NatLeischer, editor of the Ring magazine, described as “the most talked in sport.”

Who did the rademacher think he was?

The press described him as a “phenomenal seller”, taking into account that he managed to convince businessmen and boxing bodies in some way that he was a legal contender for the largest prize of this sport, despite the fact that he fought only in the amateur ring.

There was something more to admire in the rademacher than his skills as a seller.

Rademacher was a lieutenant in the army, as well as the vice president of Youth Unlimited, Columbus, Georgia fighting a crime for minors.

To the relief of Rademacher, Patterson gave Jackson a beating, abandoning him three times and stopping at 10, which is improving the win in points recorded last year.

After the fight, Jackson went to the hospital as a precaution, and 23 days later Patterson returned to the ring.

Looking back, Patterson admitted that the fight against Rademacher soon after Jackson made a mistake, but added: “Fighting with an amateur by $ 250,000 is never a mistake for a man who fights life.”

He was paid $ 46,910.11 for Jackson’s fight and estimated that his training costs this year amounted to USD 119,890.78.

Who could blame Patterson for what he considered an simple salary day.

The master was not alone thinking about it.

Fleischer was at the Olympic Games in Melbourne and was not convinced of the possibilities of the rademacher.

Fleischer described the rademacher as “Noninny Battleler from the Mauler school” and decided that his “blows were telegraph … his defense was faint. He was not balanced and was strict in his delivery. “

Fleischer liked the rademacher-he-invited that he was “polite” and had a “good sense of humor”-and he could not doubt his faith.

Rademacher explained to Fleischer that his father taught him the basics of boxing as a boy and whether he fought on the street or in the ring, he usually won.

He won 72 out of 79 amateur duels, and in seven losses turned five.

Rademacher went to fight Patterson, knocked out his previous five opponents, and Patterson was a adolescent master who knew there were those who doubted whether he was “enough or cruel enough or cruel enough.”

There was also a possibility that Patterson would be self -designed in the face of full novices.

He would later admit that he could lose their interest in fighting if he thinks that victory was certain, and bookmakers saw only one possible result when he faced a rademacher. Challenger responded to the opening bell as an outsider 50/1.

There was a crowd of 19,961 years, except for 25,000 needed so that the rademacher investors could break, and four rounds in battle, it was possible that it looked impossible. Rademacher overtook points after the Patterson dropped in the second.

Rademacher certainly won the opening round, being more busy, and when he landed after himself, he sensed victory.

In the second he hit Patterson’s jaw, rejecting him. Rademacher released a few, and Patterson landed on his website. “I thought he wasn’t for good,” Rademacher said many years later. “I shouted to myself:” Boy, we’re there! We are there! ‘I sailed in the ring, showing everyone who the fresh master was. “

The celebrations were cut by the view of Patterson’s getting up to the count “two”, and the knocking seemed to turn it on.

Patterson stunned the rademacher with a combination in the third and dropped him later in the round, but nevertheless the rademacher fought him on the fourth.

The decisive round was fifth. Rademacher ordered Patterson to withdraw with the right, and when he entered to throw more, Patterson hit the left with his left right, sending a rademacher.

Four times in this fifth round, Rademacher showed his determination, raising his head on Patterson’s chest at the beginning of the sixth. Patterson saw a hole and briefly crashed on the rademacher jaw, sending it for the sixth time.

Rademacher has still not been beaten. He got caught up in “nine” and threw the next blow, his right hand, which had everything he left – and swam harmlessly over Patterson’s head.

Rademacher left the floor seventh time in the later round, but judge Tommy Loughran, a former master of weighty lithe weight, obeyed the wishes of the corner of the Challenger George Chemeres, who shouted at him: “That’s enough! That’s enough! “

Fleischer would write in his report that it was a fight that turned out to be “courage, belief and confidence, they can wear one and not further”.

He wrote that the claimant was “concerned, whipped, beaten, stitched and knocked out. But let him be said with pressure, he was not deprived. “

Rademacher later said that he “did not regret”, adding: “There is nothing like to start from above and acting down.”

Rademacher was a successful businessman after withdrawing from Pro Boxing with a 15-7-1 record. He worked for a company that traded in pool equipment and, according to his recommendation, hired Patterson to a spell.