September 28: Max Schmeling is born in Klein-Luckow, in Germany's Brandenburg province. Christmas Day: African American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out Canadian Tommy Burns in 14 rounds, becoming the ...
Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized and galvanized the hopes, ...
Outside Madison Square Garden one night this week, pickets paraded up and down, beseeching Manhattanites not to spend money that might go to Nazi Germany. Inside, 17,000 boxing fans were clamorously ...
The story of Joe Louis’ brutal, shock defeat of German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight title
Hitler’s tanks had rolled across Austria a few months earlier. Czechoslovakia was plainly going to be next. And in the late spring of 1938, the New York papers were full of disturbing reports from ...
Algunos boxeadores dejan todo en el cuadrilátero, otros además, dejan su alma en nuestro mundo. Este es el caso de Maximilan Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling. Mejor ...
Cleveland Stadium hosted an arsenal of stars throughout its history. Bob Feller. Jim Brown. Even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. But it was another occasion that rocked the Stadium on its first ...
In New York’s Yankee Stadium last week, Germany’s Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit’s Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight. The bout was watched by a crowd of 40,000 ...
On the 28th of September, Max Schmeling celebrated his 99th birthday at home in Hamburg, Germany. A reporter, Florian Kalle, quoted Schmeling as saying that the word “celebrated” is not quite right.
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