– Ready to die
– I am ready to die, says Mogens Palle in a larger interview with Danish Extra Bladet.
– If I get three months older, it’s not so damn much, Palle says about the decision to say no to further cancer treatment.
Palle tells, according to BT, that the games are in the process of drawing up a plan for the further race, but he refuses to accept chemotherapy.
– I told them that I was not interested in that, says Palle.
Now only Palle has only one last wish: To see his boxers fight in the ring one last time.
– Unfair
In the spring of 2020, BT was able to report that Palle had contracted cancer with spread. He was declared cancer-free again, but now the cancer has returned, with tumors forming in both lungs.
– I was a little surprised, because I have never smoked a cigarette in my entire life, nor drank alcohol – other than a glass of wine if I have been to a party. So that’s why I think it’s unfair. But that’s so much of it in life, says Mogens Palle.
He still admits that the cancer hurts him.
– I’m not feeling well. I’m walking like a 100-year-old now. It does not help to complain, because something comes with age. I have had a good life, a good family and done what interested me. There are many who do not get half as old as I have become, says Palle BT.
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Tangstad helper
“The godfather of Nordic boxing”, Mogens Palle has been called. He built up an empire by arranging big boxing matches all over Europe, especially in Denmark. Palle was in attendance Wikipedia involved in more than 200 matches – for major European Championship and World Cup titles – and the job with, among others, our own Steffen Tangstad, Ayub Kalule, Tom Bogs, Jimmy Bredahl, Thomas Damgaard and Brian Nielsen.
With Norwegian eyes, he is known for being behind Steffen Tangstad’s major title matches and European Championship and World Cup matches in the 80s.
In 2001, he arranged the legendary match between Mike Tyson and Brian Nielsen in Denmark. He also brought boxing stars like Larry Holmes and Ken Buchanan to huge fights in Denmark with tens of thousands of spectators.
Farewell
But now Palle – if he lives – will return one last time in the ring as a boxing promoter. On April 21 this year, he will hold his very last boxing competition after 65 years in the arena.
– Yes, it will be my farewell meeting, the almost 88-year-old men confirm.
For Palle’s farewell in Frederiksberg, Danish-Faroese Sarah Mahfoud will defend her World Cup title against Nina Meinke from Germany. Danish Enock Poulsen will also fight for the European Championship title against Franck Petitjour from France.
In recent years, he has taken on a more withdrawn role, and his daughter Bettina Palle has taken over the day-to-day management of the boxing factory.
As early as 2008, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.