Baer Schmeling II

I think Baer pulls through against Schmeling...And Braddock still gets the winner and still wins..Until he runs into Louis. Poor Braddock.

 

Braddock got 10% of all of Joe Louis title defense purses. He did OK.

 

Maybe financially he did OK...But Louis knocked the **** outa him!..One of the most brutal KO's youll ever see.

 

Braddock did an even better deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Braddock

Braddock agreed to the fight with the stipulation that he would receive 10% of Promoter Mike Jacobs future fights. So if Braddock beat Louis or Louis retired, the deal was for any fight and any boxer that Jacobs was handling for the next ten years. This money did not include the purse, just money from the concessions i.e. hotdogs, drinks, tee shirts programs etc. So win or lose Joe Gould got Braddock a great deal. While Braddock was able to knock down Louis in the fight, Louis went on to win. Louis was quoted as saying that Braddock was the bravest man he ever fought.[3]

 

No argument from anyone on that point.

 

Ive never heard that story before, but if its true not only was Braddock brave but a very smart man...Jacobs owed it to him anyway!..

 

With the Nazis still in power by 35, and with their even greater noteriety,,Baer would be even more motivated, I would think, as a fellow who wore a Jewish star on his trunks, to cave in Schmeling's head just to **** off the Fuhrer.

 

Good call!..

 

Yeah, I think a motivated baer is a bad idea for Schmeling at any time of his career.

 

Anytime you motivate a man whos killed other men in the ring...its bad!

 

I dont think Louis or Braddock was too worried about it.

 

You're saying that Baer was motivated against these two men the way he was vs Schmeling in '33?

 

He should have been!