René Weller was one of the most prominent German boxers, with numerous excursions in film and TV. Even today the “beautiful Rene” still pays attention to his body.
Rene Weller still lets his fists fly when shadow boxing, he lifts weights every day or runs through the forest for an hour. The “beautiful Rene” also has to get older, but the body should remain nice and crisp.
“I only fight with my wife. She usually wins,” Weller said with a smile in autumn 2018, just before he celebrated his 65th birthday – and at the same time the fifth wedding anniversary with his wife, the journalist Rosemarie (née Dörk).
René Weller served the boulevard intensively
Weller, born on 21 November 1953 in Pforzheim, used to be a cult, the son of a pugilist provided good entertainment, something Weller missed with his heirs: “There are no longer any fighters that everyone in Germany knows,” he said.
This was different in his time in the 80s. Almost everyone in Germany knew the “beautiful Rene”, also because the trained heating engineer and goldsmith knew how to write headlines outside the ring, with macho slogans and other escapades.
With his image as a playboy, the lightweight served the boulevard skilfully and provided many colourful stories.
Women’s Exchange, Summer House of Stars, Big Brother
Weller’s past is dazzling – and also a little bizarre. He left almost nothing out. Boxing titles, women, parties, showbiz, prison. “Others would have to have three lives to experience what I have experienced,” Weller once said.
Even when Weller could no longer be a professional, his show continued – but as a C celebrity. In TV formats like “Big Brother”, “Frauentausch”, “Das Sommerhaus der Stars” or “Das perfekte Celebrity-Dinner” the self-proclaimed “Golden Boy” played himself: A sports-crazy macho with gold chain and western boots.
The fact that Weller, who used to be coached by promoter Wilfried Sauerland, was once the best lightweight boxer in Germany and only lost one of 55 professional fights is increasingly being forgotten: In 1984 Weller celebrated his greatest success when he defeated the Italian Lucio Cusma in Frankfurt and became European Champion. In 1986 he lost the title to the Dane Gert Bo Jacobsen, his only bankruptcy in the ring.
“Macho Man” also in the film
In any case, legendary photographs will be remembered in which a well-trained Weller gives his Playboy image plenty to eat. Sometimes alone on a Harley, sometimes surrounded by beautiful women on an air mattress in the pool – but always with a naked upper body and in a macho pose. “I am the only German who looks better naked than dressed,” he once said.