"Baer-Schmeling" from 1933 New York.....

This is a great fight. One of my favs. Schmeling was in it until the end. Baer himself said that Schmeling had him badly hurt once and he was lucky that Schmeling didn´t recognize it.

 

That was Baer´s best performance too, with the destruction of Carnera, with him beeing hot and cold despite this fight I´d take Schmeling to come out on top in a three fight series.

 

Baer looked pretty good in there, he was no boxer but he covered up well in this fight, and he threw some great SHORT punches.

Schmeling may have been "in the fight" all the way, but Baer was even more so ! Baer's punches were landing often and hurting Max every time they did.

I cant give Schmeling credit for winning some sort of hypotheical series between the two. I'm not sure Schmeling had the right style.
Besides, when the smoke had cleared, Baer had almost killed him.

Schmeling was one tough dude though. Fighters in those days were true gladiators.

 

I dont know, but Max Baer lived more in his 50 years than most people could hope for in 100 !

One of the greatest characters boxing ever had, and a success story after boxing with his acting.

(I haven't seen the Ron Howard character assassination on Max but it's shameful that Hollywood sanctions such crap, about a man whom Americans should remain fond of.)

 

No, Baer was not hurting Schmeling with every punch he landed. And no, I don´t give anybody credit for hypothetical fights. I just added a thought on this matter taking some facts about Baer into account.

 

Fair enough.
Schmeling actually described himself as being "outclassed" by Baer in the fight. And he was getting clouted pretty hard in every round, if not every punch.

Shame they didn't fight again. There was talk of a match in 1934 or 1935 for the championship, and was plans to rematch them in London in 1938 but it didn't come off.

Great win for Baer, especially considering Schmeling was a heavy betting favourite going in.

 

I would have been rather interested to see a rematch between these two.

One of the classics of that era that never was.

 

I had Baer ahead going in the tenth, I think by 2 rounds when I scored it lol.

I think Schmeling would win a rematch. He just got caught in the tenth round which happens. Before that, he was doing pretty good. It was not the beat down Kings of the Ring or other docs like claim it was, it was a close fight until the tenth round.

 

The problem I saw for Schmeling was that he couldn't hurt Baer. His style pretty much relied on him being able to hurt his opponents with the right hand. On some nights, Schmeling could outpoint Baer who tended to coast in his fights, but the combination of size, strength and durability of Baer would always present difficulties for Schmeling.

 

Baer walked through a ton of punishment and got butchered by Nova until the referee decided to stop it with Baer still on his feet.

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In the second fight, Baer was washed up and took a beating until being knocked down twice. He wasn't legitimately knocked out, but he had seen enough.