Since Henry Maske the fistfight in the 90s again made popular pay ARD, ZDF and RTL enormous sums to their viewers the best in the guild supposedly to be able to present. But the lucrative professional business is only one, the shiny side of the boxing medal.
The other, the amateur boxing, had an urgent need to polish. Just made the newly elected Executive Board of the German Boxing Association (DBV) a kind Offenbarungseid: “The DBV is located in the biggest financial crisis in its history. Its existence and so is the Olympic boxing is under threat. Even the smallest donation is welcome.” Repayment requirements of the Federal Interior Ministry in the amount of 150 000 euro, the Union to the brink of insolvency brought. The federal government is concerned about the Army, in whose pay the boxers from A, B and C are all cadres, the principal sponsor of the DBV.
Funding from the Federal House of Interior and Sports Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is earmarked – for example in preparation for major international events such as European and World Championships or Olympic Games. The boxing association, however, had ever greater effort, the holes in its budget to plug. From a “shortfall” in the amount of least about 200 000 euro, the new DBV President Jürgen Kyas. For a sports federation, with less than a million euros a year over the coming rounds, is that a lot. Kyas: “Of course we gnaw on Hungertuch.” There was a great temptation to get out of the BMI-pot to use, to fill the gap. Nobody has been enriched, but Berlin was not like the cross. And the DBV lacked the money to the funding pot to fill again.
“We have a lot of things no longer operate. It was about survival,” says Kyas. Meanwhile, the worst, but survived. “There is no debt relief. But we have, together with the German Olympic Sports Federation, the Ministry of Interior and the Federal Office of Administration found a way to the Olympic boxing in Germany,” says Kyas. He had the DBV-Congress in June in Gifhorn in a secret ballot against predecessor Frederick Schupp enforced. Has helped damp the Association’s decision, the membership fees for clubs affiliated to practically double.
Creeping decline
The help of the DBV is also an expression of the creeping decline in traditional amateur boxing. “Our fighters boxing before parents, friends and a few very stubborn supporters,” DBV-described spokesman Alexander Mazur the sad life in the Olympic sport. All the more difficult it is talent, the lure of a professional career for at least one or two Olympics to resist.
“In the mid to late 80s is so slow the Bundesliga weggebrochen. Then mask the professional boxing owes back”, says Olaf Schatta back. Nevertheless, the referee, umpire and chairman of a Boxklubs in Wuppertal to the problems for good home-made: “The association will be led like a pigeon breeder’s association.” Personal vanity and the advanced age of almost all the officials were urgently needed reforms in the road. Conclusion of the 39-year-old ex-boxer: “The modern age does not feed.”
The problem admits DBV President Kyas type: “We go into some cold gym and offer only bare sport.” Tamtam Something in the style of the pros could help to alleviate the hardship, the Olaf Schatta describes as straightforward: “When an event has times ten viewers at 30 boxers.”
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