There have been many "super fights", and this one ranks right at the top in terms of historical significance.
My dad was in the audience.
My dad was in the audience.
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Boxing used to have so much gravitas and myth about it and now it's a bunch of rubbish about promotion and money splits and sponsorships and it's so shallow. People in Harlem celebrated in the streets after this fight. They were jubilant. That's larger than two guys punching each other in the face for millions of dollars. There's no depth, or anything transcendent about boxing now. No cultural significance.
I had never seen the fight, so thank you for posting it. It hadn't even occurred to me that all of these old fights are on YouTube.
I had never seen the fight, so thank you for posting it. It hadn't even occurred to me that all of these old fights are on YouTube.
So did this boxing evolve from MMA, but less violent?
They reckon that boxing is way more dangerous for the boxers health since the Marquis of Queensberry rules we introduced. Before that boxers wore no gloves, and if you traded head shots with the other guy round after round your hands would break and you would lose. So they where hitting much more to the body back in the old days. Sure, the matches sometimes went for ages, but not too much permanent damage was done. Once gloves came in it protected the hands, so boxing became all about going for the head and knocking out your opponent, which of course leads to all the brain injuries we see in boxers today.
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Nice look back at some history. thanks for posting.
Awesome, nowadays they would have stopped the fight the 2nd time he hit the mat.
Interesting times those were, and he really beat the snot out of the German.
The wikipedia write up on the fight was quite interesting. With tidbits like:
The wikipedia write up on the fight was quite interesting. With tidbits like:
- Gate receipts for the fight was over 1 million
- Schmeling was in the hospital for 10 days after the fight
- Schmeling appears to be a good person, in that he was not sympathetic to the Nazi machine or their propaganda
- Joe Louis and Max Schmeling became good friends later in life
- In spite of his beating, Max Schmeling almost made it to 100 years of living
The only other boxer to knock the "Brown Bomber" out...and thru the ropes. Albeit, Joe was past his peak at the time. Arguably, Marciano had the hardest hitting right hand in boxing...and the shortest reach, too..
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So who can name the Louis-Schmeling referee's famous son?
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