Hugo Kohler
Name: Hugo Kohler
Hometown: Vienna, Austria
Birthplace: Osijek, Croatia
Pro Boxer: Record
Brother of Fritz Kohler, Erich Kohler and Stephan Kohler.
According to the Austrian correspondent for The Ring, Leo Vollnhofer, Koehler was brought up "in the wild backwoods of Bosnia" (See entry for Koehler's fight against Hector Constance in the record).
Kohler had 147 amateur fights, winning 90 on KO. By 1955 he was an Austrian citizen. As a pro he boxed with an Austrian license.
- Amateur fights:
- ??-08-1955: Nicolae, Romania w pts Austria- Bucurest Wien,Austria.
- 02-09-1955 ?? w pts Austria-Bucurest Heuenmarkt,Austria
- 05-11-1955 ?? w Qualification for Nation team against Hungary,Wels,Austria
- 20-11-1955 Istvan Raduly w pts Austria-Hungary Bucuresti,Hungary
- 17-05-1956 Istvan Raduly w pts Austria-Hungary KLagenfurt, Austria.
- 22-05-1956 Istvan Raduly w pts, Dornbirn Austria.
- 27-05-1956 Walkover win Austria- Yugoslavia, Graz, Austri
- 08-09-1956 Muehlbacher w tko 1 Austrian Championship Middleweight,Klagenfurt
- 15-09-1956 ?? w Bruehn,Austria. Wien vs. Breuhhn
- Signed pro contract October 1956
His name was often spelled Koehler--the English way of writing the German name Kohler with an o umlaut. He seems to have come from the German population in Bosnia or Croatia.
Koehler fought all over Europe, twice in Norway. Norwegian manager John W. Wiksen had him against Oslo fighters Roy Askvold and Johnny Romsaas in 1965. Wiksen remembers Kohler as a very likeable guy, inside and outside the ring, although he had some rough tactics. Kohler was the ulitimate test for any young ambitious middleweight in Europe in the 1960s.
He was famed for his always dangerous knock out punch, although he admitted that his ambitions had waned somewhat after a painful KO loss to German veteran Peter Mueller early in his career.
Johnny Romsaas v Hugo Koehler photo
