Amateur career

In his amateur career, Rademacher had 79 fights, going 72-7. He won a series of tournaments, including the 1949, 1951, 1952, and 1953 Seattle Golden Gloves (he lost in 1950 to Zora Folley, who he would face several times in his career), and the US Amateur Championship as a heavyweight in 1953—avenging his earlier loss to Folley. He also captured the Chicago Golden Gloves, the All-Army championship, and the Service championship in 1956, before qualifying for the Olympic team. In the Olympics, held in Melbourne, he captured a gold medal in the heavyweight division.

Olympic results

• Defeated Josef Němec KO 2
• Defeated Daan Bekker KO 3
• Defeated Lev Mukhin KO 1

Rademacher also attended college, playing offensive line on the football team for Washington State.

Professional career

After winning the gold medal, Rademacher started saying that he would be able to become world heavyweight champion in his first professional fight. He made his belief public and was able to lure world Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson into defending his crown against the debutant Rademacher. It is the only time to date that a fighter making his professional debut has challenged for the world heavyweight title. The bout was refereed by former lightheavyweight champion Tommy Loughran, who himself had contended for the heavy crown once, vs. Primo Carnera, in 1934.

Rademacher dropped Patterson in round two, but Patterson recovered and defeated him by a knockout in six.

Rademacher fought Zora Folley, Brian London, George Chuvalo, Buddy Turman, and the former world light heavyweight champion, Archie Moore. He lost to Moore, Folley and London but beat Chuvalo, Clark, and Turman. His last bout was with former world middleweight champion Carl "Bobo" Olson, whom he beat by decision.

Professional boxing record

15 Wins (8 knockouts, 7 decisions), 7 Losses (6 knockouts, 1 decision), 1 Draw
Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round	Date	Location	Notes
Win		Bobo Olson	UD	10	03/04/1962	Honolulu Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii
Loss		Karl Mildenberger	PTS	10	20/01/1962	Westfalenhallen, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
Win		Buddy Turman	TKO	9	30/11/1961	Fair Park Coliseum, Dallas, Texas
Loss		Archie Moore	TKO	6	23/10/1961	Baltimore Coliseum, Baltimore, Maryland
Loss		George Logan	KO	2	17/08/1961	Boise, Idaho
Loss		Doug Jones	KO	5	29/04/1961	St. Nicholas Arena, New York City
Win		Dan Vanderford	KO	1	14/04/1961	Gastonia, North Carolina
Win		Harvey Taylor	KO	1	22/02/1961	Yakima, Washington
Win		Donnie Fleeman	UD	10	23/01/1961	Seattle Civic Ice Arena, Seattle, Washington
Win		Willi Besmanoff	UD	10	13/12/1960	Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio
Win		Kirk Barrow	SD	10	08/12/1960	Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, Washington
Win		George Chuvalo	UD	10	19/07/1960	Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Win		LaMar Clark	TKO	10	29/06/1960	Derks Field, Salt Lake City, Utah
Loss		Brian London	KO	7	26/04/1960	Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Draw		Ulli Ritter	PTS	10	08/04/1960	Sportpalast, Schoeneberg, Berlin
Win		Ulli Nitzschke	KO	7	06/02/1960	Festhalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hesse
Win		Johnny York	PTS	8	09/12/1959	Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio
Win		Buddy Keener	KO	1	12/11/1959	Columbus, Ohio
Win		Calvin Butler	UD	10	29/09/1959	Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida
Win		Ralph Schneider	TKO	3	17/09/1959	Greenville Memorial Auditorium, Greenville, South Carolina
Win		Eldridge Thompson	TKO	5	13/08/1959	Columbus, Ohio
Loss		Zora Folley	KO	4	25/07/1958	Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Loss		Floyd Patterson	KO	6	22/08/1957	Sick's Stadium, Seattle, Washington

Later life

After retirement, he went into business at McNeil Corporation in Akron, Ohio. He retired as President in 1987. In 1996, he and two of his daughters helped carry the Olympic torch around the streets of Cleveland, Ohio.

Rademacher is active in local politics in Medina County, Ohio. He is also well known in northern Ohio for the amazing gasoline-powered one wheel "unicycle" he rides in local parades.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]