People from Uecker-Randow - Max Schmeling, Viktor Bauer (Paperback)

Chapters: Max Schmeling, Viktor Bauer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 February 2, 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. He was ranked 55 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. While Schmeling was never a supporter of the Nazi regime in Germany, he cooperated with the government's efforts to play down the increasingly negative international world view of its domestic policies during the 1930s. However, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. Schmeling served with the German Air Force () as an elite paratrooper (). Schmeling was born in Klein Luckow in the Province of Pomerania. He debuted as a professional boxer in 1924, and he built a record of 42 wins, 4 losses and 3 draws, before fighting Jack Sharkey for the vacant World Heavyweight Title in 15 rounds in Cleveland, and in 1932 he and Sharkey met for a rematch. After 15 rounds, Sharkey outboxed Schmeling, and Schmeling lost his title. This decision led his manager Joe Jacobs to shout in protest a line that since has become famous: "We was robbed " Despite efforts to make a third fight happen, the rubber match between Schmeling and Sharkey never took place. Two months after he lost the title Max Schmeling knocked out overweight middleweight Mickey Walker. Then in June 1933 Schmeling lost by T.K.O. to future champion Max Baer. In 1936, the situation in Germany had changed. Schmeling traveled to New York to face up-and-comi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14671