+ How often in life there are situations when talented people cannot be fully realized due to the banal bureaucracy. Of course, no one argues that the law should be respected. However, there are times when it comes to refugees who do not have the financial ability to complete the entire package of documents for a normal life in a new country. Such problems were once faced by a talented boxer of our time named Manuel Charr. We will talk about his fate and sporting achievements in this article.
Birth
The former boxing heavyweight champion was born in Beirut on October 10, 1984, but after a while his family moved to Syria, a city called Homs. In 1987, Manuel Charr was left without a father, who was killed during the fighting. Since the family was left almost without a livelihood, the mother decided to flee to Germany. By the way, the family is large. There are six children in it.
Life in Europe
Since the family was in the Old World illegally, all members had problems with work. Largely in this regard, Manuel Charr began to actively train and perform according to the rules of boxing, Thai boxing, kickboxing. And it should be noted that in these martial arts, the guy achieved quite good successes, becoming the champion of Germany, Europe, and even winning the K-1 Grand Prix in the Netherlands. After that, the fighter spent ten fights in amateur games, but his further development as an athlete was limited due to forged documents.
Jail
Training in the Max Schmeling gym, Manuel Charr was spotted by Ullie Wegner, thanks to whom he began to work as a sparring partner for famous boxers. In fairness, we note that Charr was pretty good at boxing, and he decided to switch to professional boxing, explaining this by the fact that this sport opens up quite broad prospects both in terms of fame and income.
But here a problem arose: the fighter did not have permits in order to earn money in Germany in this way. In this regard, his promoter Wilfried Sauerland offered the boxer a three-year contract, but with a “freeze” prize until the situation with the package of documents is clarified. Manuel spent seven fights for a negligible amount of money - 35 euros per day, but he did not think to stop, but it so happened that he was sent to prison for ten months. The fight was to blame. In conclusion, the athlete behaved approximately, conducting training with prisoners.
Again in the ring
After serving his sentence, Charr returns to boxing. And already in his 11th battle he went into the square of the ring against the invincible at that time representative of Nigeria, Gbenga Oloukuna. This Manuel Charr fight lasted only seven rounds and ended with his knockout victory.
The naturalized German also had victories over a famous Bahamian boxer named Sherman Williams and Jamaican Owen Beck.
It is impossible not to note the victory over the strong middle peasants Robert Hawkins and Zach Page. After these victories, Charr went out to fight in the ring against an already more serious rival - the Englishman Danny Williams, who at one time was even a contender for the title. Manuel defeated the Briton by TKO in the seventh round.
In 2012, our hero himself became a promoter and began to organize fights, in one of which he defended his belt against Taras Bidenko.
Confrontation with Klitschko
In the spring of 2012, a contract was signed for the fight Vitali Klitschko - Manuel Charr. The fight was supposed to take place in the capital of Ukraine in the arena of the Olimpiysky sports complex. However, during the preparation some difficulties arose, and the place of the battle had to be moved to Moscow.
On September 8, 2012, the boxers came face to face. The fight had a very active start. But already in the second round, the applicant was knocked down, and in the fourth three minutes after the left cross from Klitschko, Manuel opened a strong cut. After examining the wound by a doctor, it was decided to stop the fight. Thus, the battle of Manuel Charr - Klitschko ended in victory for the latter.
Career continuation
After the title fight, the German did not finish speaking at a high level and continued to fight with quite serious opponents.
So, he managed to knock out already in the first round of the strong Konstantin Irikh, who before the duel with Charr went through all rounds with Solis and Glazkov.
In early 2013, Manuel won an early victory over the Turkish Yakup Saglam. Note that Charr went to this fight with a lot of excess weight, but in the end this did not stop him from winning.
In the same year, Charr defeated Ukrainian Aleksey Mazykin and Russian Denis Bakhtov. A fight was also planned against David Haye, but the Briton was forced to withdraw from the battle before it began due to a hand injury.
In 2014, Manuel fought with Alexander Povetkin and lost to him by knockout in the seventh round, being the whole battle in passive defense.