Joe Louis has a "private boxing lesson" with Gene Tunney?

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    This is in the run up to the second Schmeling fight.

    Anyone know anything about this? I know nothing apart from that it happened according to a couple of papers around that time. Boy, that would have been fascinating to see.
     
  2. janitor

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    It is mentioned in a few secondary sources, but I think there is a lot of heresay surrounding it.

    Max Schmeling expressed doubts that it happened.
     
  3. McGrain

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    It was right in the maelstrom of the promotion of the second fight BUT the million dollar gate was already a lock.
     
  4. Legend X

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    Didn't Schmeling claim that Tunney hated blacks and wouldn't even spar with one ?
     
  5. janitor

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    He did not directly say it, but he implied it.
     
  6. Seamus

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    His invisible record was full of colored opponents.

    Fact.
     
  7. Legend X

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    Such as Ralph Ellison.
     
  8. red cobra

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    Wonder what Schmeling would have thought of the Black Muslim Muhammad Ali? Or that good ol' black racist Bernard Hopkins?
     
  9. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Would have been fun waching Tunney box Louis's ears off .
     
  10. Legend X

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    He thought Ali was pretty good.
     
  11. janitor

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    Up to the point where he got separated from his senses?
     
  12. LittleRed

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  13. ripcity

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    :lol::lol::lol:
     
  14. McGrain

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    I don't think it would have happened in the first place.
     
  15. red cobra

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    I don't either..I've come to that conclusion over the years.