Regina Halmich took her time agreeing to the boxing match with Stefan Raab – but now she is determined to win.
This fight is hotly anticipated. In mid-September, Stefan Raab (57) and Regina Halmich (47) will box against each other for the third time. For the entertainer, it is his TV comeback after almost ten years. But Halmich was initially not sure whether she wanted to accept the challenge. “I thought about it for almost three weeks and really considered whether it would work again, whether I could do it, whether people would want to see it,” she reported in the.
Ultimately, ambition won out. “At some point I thought: OK, come on, I’ll do it again. I’m kind of up for it,” explained the former boxing world champion. She consulted with her old trainer Thorsten Schmitz and he also thought that she could complete the fight.
Ambition also has its dark sides
“The old fighter Regina has been revived. I recently met my mother and she said: Regina, the fire has been rekindled,” Halmich told presenter Kathrin Müller-Hohenstein (58). But that is not only positive for the athlete, it is “very dangerous.” “I have to stop again immediately after September 14th. Hang up the boxing gloves because the risk that I want to fight again is just too great, and that is really difficult at the moment,” she explained.
“I have no idea what he’s up to”
Regina Halmich and Stefan Raab faced each other in the ring in front of millions of viewers in 2001 and 2007 – the boxer emerged victorious twice. Since Raab withdrew from the public eye, she hasn’t seen him either. The two spoke on the phone, but a meeting before the big fight is not planned. Raab wants to keep the secret about him. “He enjoys it. He wants to keep that moment to himself when he marches into the ring, floats in, whatever. I have no idea what he’s planning,” emphasized his opponent.
The boxing match revival of Stefan Raab and Regina Halmich will be shown live on RTL, as the broadcaster officially confirmed at the beginning of May. The two will enter the ring on September 14th in Düsseldorf’s PSD Bank Dome in front of 15,000 spectators and compete against each other in the show fight “The Clark Final Fight”.
Source: Stern
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