Editing Pete Rademacher (section)

==Professional career==

[[File:Pete Rademacher and Zora Folley 1958.jpg|thumb|left|Rademacher and [[Zora Folley|Folley]] in 1958]]
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 him in his  professional debut. It is the only time to date that a fighter making his professional debut has challenged for the world heavyweight title.

The bout, at [[Sick's Stadium]] in Seattle, was refereed by former light-heavyweight 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 knocked Rademacher down seven times, defeating him by a [[knockout]] in round six.<ref name=boxrec/><ref name=sr/><ref name=allovrxs/> Legendary boxing promoter [[Jack Hurley]] promoted the match.

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, [[LaMar Clark]], and Turman, among others. His last bout was with former world middleweight champion [[Bobo Olson|Carl "Bobo" Olson]], whom he beat by decision.<ref name=boxrec/>