Max+Schmeling Entries

Entries tagged with "Max+Schmeling":

Joe Louis—America’s Hero Betrayed – February 14th, 2019
The story of Joe Louis is a quintessential American story. Sandwiched between the controversial Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali, Louis was one of the greatest yet least controversial heavyweights of all time. This superb documentary traces the career of Joe Louis within the context of American racial consciousness.…
Jack Dempsey’s Double/Trouble in the Bronx – September 4th, 2018
If you take a good look at a picture of the two ex-champs standing together, you really could be seeing double!
The irresistible spell of King Tut – July 2nd, 2018
On a perfect night 89 summers ago, 9,000 fans were lured to the ballpark called “The Orchard” by the irresistible spell of King Tut…
Max Schmeling vs. Young Stribling – July 2nd, 2018
On July 3, 1931 at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, the "Black Uhlan of the Rhine" from Klein Luckow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, defended his title against light heavyweight champion Young Stribling, aka King of the Canebrakes, from Bainbridge, Georgia.…
Jack Sharkey vs. Max Schmeling – June 11th, 2018
On June 12, 1930 at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York, Jack Sharkey, from Binghamton, New York, fought Max Schmeling, from Klein Luckow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, for the vacant NBA/NYSAC heavyweight titles. Sharkey was 34-8-1 coming in. Schmeling was 42-4-3. The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds...
Noah Klieger: “Boxing His Way Through Auschwitz” – May 22nd, 2018
It all started when he was arrested by the German Gestapo at a train station, on the Belgian-French border in late 1942. His crime was simple. He was a Jew…
The Money Machine (2018/1938): No Change Here – April 2nd, 2018
Mike Jacobs liked to keep Joe Louis fighting in New York. Eddie Hearn likes to keep Joshua fighting in the United Kingdom…
A Snapshot in Time: Max and Buddy Baer – January 24th, 2018
When Max and Buddy were offered some bouts in Britain by promoter and businessman A.C. Critchley, the Baer brothers jumped at the offer…
10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – November 30th, 2017
There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the…
Rocky Marciano: A Crown of Gold – November 3rd, 2017
Rocky Marciano last fought on September 21, 1955, his sixth title defense, knocking out Archie Moore, "The most unappreciated fighter in the world…”
When The Cub Meets The Lion – October 17th, 2017
Experience is to one’s vocation what seasoning is to a dish. Like wine, there’s just a bolder taste that only time can conjure…
Bud Gorman: A Decent Heavyweight – July 22nd, 2017
"A ring great of the '20s," according to the Asbury Park Press, Bud was ranked fifth by The Ring in 1925, the only year he made the Top 10…
The Welcomed Heist – July 17th, 2017
This isn't Louis/Schmeling or Ali/Frazier. It's not Leonard/Hearns. It means nothing more than bragging rights…
Europe’s Greatest Ever Boxers by Country – May 23rd, 2017
Europe may not have the historical precedence that Latin America or the United States have but still many great champions have been produced...
Coley Wallace: Rocking Rocky – May 11th, 2017
Working as a bouncer at the Palm Gardens on West 52nd Street, he was stabbed in the back "as he tried to break up a fight between several Jamaicans…"
Classic Fights: Louis Crushes Schmeling – March 30th, 2017
Joe landed a right to the body. Max’s legs buckled and he let out a scream. “I was paralyzed from that point on...”
GGG-Jacobs: Boxing’s Long Con – March 21st, 2017
It’s more accurate to say that Golovkin faced a great fighter, he tried his best, and he came up short. There is no shame in that…
Schmeling vs. Louis 1936 – February 24th, 2017
“Joe Louis is the hardest puncher I’ve ever seen. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they are doing…”
Book Review: Madame Bey's: Home to Boxing Legends – February 17th, 2017
The question isn't so much who trained at Madame Bey's in Chatham Township, New Jersey, from 1923 to 1942, but who didn't…
Walter Neusel: Hitler’s Other Champion – October 19th, 2016
Like Schmeling, Neusel had held the German heavyweight title but he never would win the world heavyweight championship…
Obie Walker: Enfant Terrible – September 1st, 2016
Did "The Brown Bomber" avoid "The Black Boxcar"? Apparently, but so did Primo Carnera and Max Schmeling, among other worthies…
Glamour Boy Max Baer – August 26th, 2016
Harlow liked to discuss history, politics and economics. While she was beautiful, this side of her was too much for Maxie. Baer was a slugger not a thinker…
Desperately Seeking Oscar – August 21st, 2016
Boxers have an aura of nobility and menace that titillated my soul. I’ve seen presidents, media moguls, and Hollywood stars, kowtow to champion fighters…
Oh, Henry! A tale of two columns – March 10th, 2016
“I hate to make these confessions about a columnist, but there are times that a columnist just has to dream up things…”
Book Review: “Max Baer and the Star of David” – February 10th, 2016
Neugeboren the novelist is more interested in what’s below the biographical facts of wins tallied and punches thrown…
Temple of Mystery: The Mind of Freudian Floyd – February 8th, 2016
Why was Patterson so quiet? Why was he so private? Where was the dynamism of Jack Dempsey, the color of Rocky Marciano?
Max and Buddy Baer Go to War – January 25th, 2016
Max would often whack a man on the butt if he wasn’t paying attention. In those days a welt from Max or Buddy was a badge of honor…
Jack Blackburn: Murder to Glory – January 20th, 2016
“When Blackburn got drunk, his eyes turned blood red, he was ungovernable, mean and just plain bad, with his temper just a hair trigger away from violence...”
Charley Retzlaff: No Laffing Matter – January 10th, 2016
Damon Runyon compared him to Jack Dempsey, calling him "the best-looking heavyweight prospect that had bobbed up in a long time…"
Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa – December 24th, 2015
“The people are intrigued by his mammoth proportions and they flock to gaze at his huge shoulders, his mastadonic feet, his huge hands…”
Joe Louis: Six Will Get You Ten – December 1st, 2015
Max Schmeling, James J. Braddock, Tony Galento, Buddy Baer, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Rocky Marciano knocked down the greatest heavyweight of all time…
1936: It Was a Very Good Year – November 27th, 2015
In 1936, according to The Ring, Schmeling's kayo of "The Chocolate Cobra" made him top pretender to Braddock's throne…
Klitschko / Fury: Skill and Power vs. Zig-Zags and The Almighty – November 23rd, 2015
Klitschko is a fine architect, calmly deconstructing faces, subtly carving through the resolve of the man opposite…
The Humpty Dumpty Affect – November 17th, 2015
For those who sang their respective praises of invincibility, Hopkins, like Holm, was to be yet another sacrifice to a mighty icon…
Al “TNT” Lassman: What might have been – November 7th, 2015
Al Lassman’s dream of winning the heavyweight championship of the world died on a football field 87 years ago this month…
Two Fighters Meet After 44 Years – October 19th, 2015
“I thought you’d be a construction worker or something,” he says. “Not a teacher! Hey, it’s great to see you doing good. Not all of us are…”
Germany vs. Hamas – October 6th, 2015
Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News wrote, "Nobody ever cut Schmeling before." Not until Steve Hamas, that is…
Max Schmeling, After the Rain – September 15th, 2015
Rescheduling the fight was just postponing the inevitable. Joe owned the ring, Max was a serf renting space…
Sauerland: Boxen in Deutschland – August 19th, 2015
When asked which fights during his long and storied career are most memorable, the 75-year-old Sauerland didn’t skip a beat…
Animosity: Papa Jack, Corbett and Louis – August 17th, 2015
While Jack smiled at the taunts and whipped back quick and sarcastic replies, the animated Corbett steamed and fidgeted...
Leaping Lena Levy – June 10th, 2015
She was as famous in the 1930s as her kid brother Harry, a screwball heavyweight contender known as Kingfish Levinsky…
Will the real Max Baer please stand up? – June 8th, 2015
Baer possessed the same fundamentals and family values as Braddock. It’s a shame that Ron Howard couldn’t acknowledge that...
Greatest KOs in Boxing History – May 9th, 2015
Everyone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
The Thrilla in Vanilla – April 27th, 2015
If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets. One robin doesn't make a spring, or one defibrillator jolt a pulse…
Mayweather-Pacquiao: At Last – April 20th, 2015
The May 2 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is fast approaching. The consensus number one and number two pound-for-pound fighters, after years of diddling about, are almost ready to get it on. Some call it the most important fight of all time. Others call it the most over-hyped fight…
The Dark Side of Celebration – March 9th, 2015
“Sometimes you get great fights when you match up two limited guys because they actually got a feeling they can win…”
Billy Taub: Clothier of Champions – February 18th, 2015
Baer swelled "magnificently in the right places" and had an "exhilarating clothes sense, his taste running to orchidaceous tones and new designs…"
Baer vs. Schmeling – February 17th, 2015
“Since you’re a Jew, you’re going to like this. It’ll be a fight between Max Baer and Max Schmeling, a favorite of Hitler…”
Harry Thomas: For the Good of the Game – February 9th, 2015
But what did Harry have to tell his daughter about the fights he supposedly threw? Not a blessed thing…
Louis vs. Schmeling 1938 – February 5th, 2015
Schmeling went back to Germany quietly this time. No parades, no bands and no title. The only one who called and stuck with him was Albert Speer…