Age is just a number: Biggest success for Wegner to date

[The_budweiser]

This is a first! Since last Saturday, Coach Ulli Wegner has four world champions in his training group. Arthur Abraham´s successful bid for the WBO Super-Middleweight Championship at the o2 World Berlin, Germany, added a record winning fourth belt to the already existing three champions Cecilia Breakhus (WBC-, WBA-, and WBO- Welterweight Champion), Marco Huck (WBO Cruiserweight Champion) and Yoan Pablo Hernandez (IBF Cruiserweight Champion). All won under Wegner´s guidance

 

Never before has a German boxing coach been that successful at the age of 70. For Wegner, who has been in this business for 41 years, it is a real highlight in his illustrious career. But if it is up to the trainer himself, voted coach of the year nine times in a row by “BoxSport” magazine, there are still a few titles to come. “In Dominik Britsch, Robert Helenius, Eduard Gutknecht and Karo Murat I have some more potential world beaters in my group,” said Wegner.

 

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[gavpowell]

I've never understood this "age is just a number" business - you can say that about anything.

 

Time is "just a number" too, but try telling that to someone in bomb disposal.

[davemurphy]

I've never understood this "age is just a number" business - you can say that about anything.

 

Time is "just a number" too, but try telling that to someone in bomb disposal.

 

Agreed. Just once I'd love to hear the "age is just a number" line spoken by a teenager and not some senior citizen with a bad toupee who's trying to score with a women half his age and convincing himself she's interested in something other than his wallet grin//

 

As far as Wegner, even though I realize we have a language barrier at work, I'm hard pressed to recall a Trainer who's had the success he's had and gotten so little coverage.