Entries tagged with "Max+Schmeling":
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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.…
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If you take a good look at a picture of the two ex-champs standing together, you really could be seeing double!
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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…
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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.…
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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...
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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…
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Mike Jacobs liked to keep Joe Louis fighting in New York. Eddie Hearn likes to keep Joshua fighting in the United Kingdom…
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When Max and Buddy were offered some bouts in Britain by promoter and businessman A.C. Critchley, the Baer brothers jumped at the offer…
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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…
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Rocky Marciano last fought on September 21, 1955, his sixth title defense, knocking out Archie Moore, "The most unappreciated fighter in the world…”
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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…
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"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…
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This isn't Louis/Schmeling or Ali/Frazier. It's not Leonard/Hearns. It means nothing more than bragging rights…
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Europe may not have the historical precedence that Latin America or the United States have but still many great champions have been produced...
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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…"
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Joe landed a right to the body. Max’s legs buckled and he let out a scream. “I was paralyzed from that point on...”
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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…
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“Joe Louis is the hardest puncher I’ve ever seen. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they are doing…”
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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…
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Like Schmeling, Neusel had held the German heavyweight title but he never would win the world heavyweight championship…
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Did "The Brown Bomber" avoid "The Black Boxcar"? Apparently, but so did Primo Carnera and Max Schmeling, among other worthies…
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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…
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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…
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“I hate to make these confessions about a columnist, but there are times that a columnist just has to dream up things…”
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Neugeboren the novelist is more interested in what’s below the biographical facts of wins tallied and punches thrown…
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Why was Patterson so quiet? Why was he so private? Where was the dynamism of Jack Dempsey, the color of Rocky Marciano?
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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…
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“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...”
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Damon Runyon compared him to Jack Dempsey, calling him "the best-looking heavyweight prospect that had bobbed up in a long time…"
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“The people are intrigued by his mammoth proportions and they flock to gaze at his huge shoulders, his mastadonic feet, his huge hands…”
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Max Schmeling, James J. Braddock, Tony Galento, Buddy Baer, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Rocky Marciano knocked down the greatest heavyweight of all time…
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In 1936, according to The Ring, Schmeling's kayo of "The Chocolate Cobra" made him top pretender to Braddock's throne…
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Klitschko is a fine architect, calmly deconstructing faces, subtly carving through the resolve of the man opposite…
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For those who sang their respective praises of invincibility, Hopkins, like Holm, was to be yet another sacrifice to a mighty icon…
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Al Lassman’s dream of winning the heavyweight championship of the world died on a football field 87 years ago this month…
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“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…”
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Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News wrote, "Nobody ever cut Schmeling before." Not until Steve Hamas, that is…
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Rescheduling the fight was just postponing the inevitable. Joe owned the ring, Max was a serf renting space…
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When asked which fights during his long and storied career are most memorable, the 75-year-old Sauerland didn’t skip a beat…
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While Jack smiled at the taunts and whipped back quick and sarcastic replies, the animated Corbett steamed and fidgeted...
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She was as famous in the 1930s as her kid brother Harry, a screwball heavyweight contender known as Kingfish Levinsky…
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Baer possessed the same fundamentals and family values as Braddock. It’s a shame that Ron Howard couldn’t acknowledge that...
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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...
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If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets. One robin doesn't make a spring, or one defibrillator jolt a pulse…
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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…
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“Sometimes you get great fights when you match up two limited guys because they actually got a feeling they can win…”
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Baer swelled "magnificently in the right places" and had an "exhilarating clothes sense, his taste running to orchidaceous tones and new designs…"
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“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…”
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But what did Harry have to tell his daughter about the fights he supposedly threw? Not a blessed thing…
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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…