Browsing Tag Max Schmeling

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  June 22, 1938: Louis-Schmeling II

  Former world champion Max Schmeling was a solid 10-to-1 underdog when he faced rising contender and awesome knockout artist Joe Louis in a major heavyweight showdown in June ...

  On June 22, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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  June 19, 1936: Louis vs Schmeling

  Think back, if you will boxing fans, and recollect those breathless days of yesteryear, when the young, can’t-miss prospect, the next great star of the ring, thrilled you ...

  On June 19, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Remembering Joe Louis

  The great Joe Louis was born on this day in 1914 and no serious fight fan needs to be reminded as to why he will always be a ...

  On May 13, 2020 / By Lee Wylie
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  Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 2)

  This is the second of two articles detailing Jack Dempsey’s comeback tour. For Part One, click here.  Dempsey took a brief break from the first leg of the ...

  On March 29, 2020 / By Thomas Dade
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  Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder

  “I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.”  ...

  On February 26, 2020 / By Lee Wylie
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  Fight City Legends: The Toy Bulldog

  There’s a character archetype that’s been floating around for decades, if not centuries: the scrappy Irishman who makes up with strength and guts what he lacks in stature, ...

  On February 4, 2020 / By Mathieu Brousseau
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  Jan. 9, 1942: Louis vs Baer II

  It is 1942, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and America is at war. As the country enters this new chapter in its history, one thing remains ...

  On January 9, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Legends: The Boston Gob

  In boxing history, there are the champions and there are those who fight among them. For every Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, there were hundreds of ...

  On October 26, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  Aug. 30, 1937: Louis vs Farr

  The great Joe Louis, already something of a legend, made his first defense as heavyweight champion against Welshman Tommy Farr just nine weeks after his title-winning knockout over James ...

  On August 30, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Exposed? Maybe. Maybe Not.

  On June 19, 1936, the number one ranked heavyweight contender, Joe Louis, stepped into the ring at Yankee Stadium in New York City. In the opposite corner stood ...

  On August 19, 2019 / By Hunter Breckenridge
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  July 22, 1931: Walker vs Sharkey

  There really was nothing left to prove. Why Mickey Walker felt an assault on the heavyweight division was necessary, nobody still living knows. It likely had much to ...

  On July 23, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes

  It’s October 3, 1933 and a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed in Macon, Georgia. The room is quiet, morose even, such ...

  On July 5, 2019 / By Daniel Attias
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  Fist of the Reich

  Max Schmeling was the first German-born world heavyweight champion and the only boxer to defeat Joe Louis in “The Brown Bomber’s” prime. A sporting hero to the German people, he risked ...

  On December 27, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Hit The Road, Andre

  In November boxing got a rare treat: a showdown between two of the very best fighters in the sport, pound-for-pound. And while Kovalev vs Ward didn’t exactly remind ...

  On January 10, 2017 / By Robert Portis
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  The Giant Falls Again

  Undefeated. Invincible. Unstoppable. The best. The greatest. All applied to Ronda Rousey short hours ago, and thus her fall to unheralded Holly Holm is easily the biggest upset ...

  On November 15, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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  Above All Mortals

  Just past 11 p.m. at Madison Square Garden on a cold March evening in 1971, the undefeated former champion was growing visibly weary. “Don’t you know I’m God?” ...

  On September 18, 2015 / By Patrick Connor