Max Schmeling vs Jerry Quarry

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  1. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yes..I think Baer..when motivated...always that caveat, lol...would have taken Schmeling. The boxing world never saw the 100% Max Baer except for this fight with Schmeling...and maybe that wasn't even 100% Baer.
     
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  2. DDDUUDDDEE

    DDDUUDDDEE Undisputed Ambien (taker) Full Member

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    I guess a bit like Riddick Bowe in that respect then...

    Although Bowe showed about everything he had in the first Holyfield fight imo.
     
    DDDUUDDDEE, Dec 6, 2010
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  3. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think it has to do with the nazi-jewish thing. Schmeling wasn´t an anti-semite, Baer presented him as a Jew and Schmeling was seen as an anti-semite nazi. Schmeling had jewish friends, his manager was jewish and I think he didn´t want to be seen as that. He never liked the way the nazis portrayed and presented him or the way the Americans saw him after the nazis seized power. I think he may have had some psychological issues.
    Then maybe I´m wrong and he just had a bad day.
     
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