Max Baer documentary (25 minutes)

Thanks for this!

 

Thanks for posting love watching documentary's of fighters

 

This the guy who was portrayed so completely wrong in that lousy movie by Opie.

 

This was great...love Baer...love the KO of Schmeling...what a shot...

 

I didn't see your film yet, but Max Baer was quite a guy, and he had great natural abilities as a boxer, but he never took it, or himself too seriously. He maintained his great sense of humor right up to the end. He had a stroke or a heart attack alone in a hotel room, so he dialed the operator who asked him if he wanted the house doctor. No, he replied, I want a people doctor!

 

Nice post .. thanks .. look forward to watching it ..

 

Saw this a few months ago, great watch, love the convo between Galento and Baer haha.

 

Great footage but has its own fallacies... a) Schmeling was not a Nazi. He refused to join the party. He refused to fire his Jewish manager. That's how you end up a paratrooper in the war's closing days. b) Baer was not exactly a Jew. His father was, his mother was not, which by Orthodox rules means, not a Jew. Probably close enough for horseshoes, tho.

 

Ali & Frazier used the same telephone call advertisement trick like Galento and Baer did 35 years before as a build up to their fight too.

 

Many thanks.:good

 

Thanks LX ! :good

 

"Max Schmeling was a NAZI."

Really could have done without that bit of nonsense.

Otherwise, some interesting footage.