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          The Hall-of-Fame promoter was born 70 years ago in Wuppertal, Germany....

          Wilfried Sauerland celebrates a special anniversary today as it was 30 years ago that he staged his first boxing fight.

        1. Wilfried Sauerland received the biggest honour in boxing on Sunday night when he was officially inducted into the Hall of Fame.
        2. The Hall-of-Fame promoter was born 70 years ago in Wuppertal, Germany.
        3. Sauerland is an energetic year-old, who along with his brother Nisse, runs Sauerland Event, the boxing promotional company their father.
        4. Wilfried Sauerland, who staged a series of successful contests in Germany leading up to the Dec. 17 fight with the pound Ruiz that.

          5. 30.09.08 – Wilfried Sauerland celebrates a special anniversary today as it was 30 years ago that he staged his first boxing fight. Having fallen in love with the sport as a small child when his father took him to Dortmund´s Westfalenhalle to see Heinz Neuhaus in action, September 30, 1978 eventually marked the beginning of an astonishing career – a career he had never envisioned..

          In the seventies, Sauerland had successfully started his own business in Africa where he owned bottling plants with offices in Johannesburg, Lusaka, Harare, Nairobi, Lagos and Cotenou.

          Then something odd happened. The Zambian foreign minister Banda made a special request for him to buy one of Sauerland´s manufacturing plants. He asked the German entrepreneur, who was living in London at that time, to use his connections and look after Zambian boxer Lottie Mwale to get him
          international exposure.

          Unwilling to threaten the business deal, Sauerland agreed and promoted his first show in Lusaka on Sept