Max Schmeling is overrated and/or his resume is dependent on the Louis win

I'll never understand the argument "If you take away their best wins."

Why would we take away their best wins?

Did Schmeling not deserve his win over Joe Louis? Did he not spend the better part of an hour boxing brilliantly?

Same with Joe Frazier. Did you see Joe Frazier's win over Ali? Why on earth should we take it away? He was fighting like few men have ever fought over 15 rounds.

They weren't fluke wins. Their opponents weren't damaged goods or injured. They didn't land a punch with their eyes closed in the closing seconds of a fight they were losing.

Their wins over those guys where examples of Schmeling and Frazier fighting at their very best. Why take their very best performances away from them in order to badmouth them?

It serves no purpose.

 

I think lower part of the top 10 is cutting him short. He was one of six linear champions of the 1930’s. Beat four hall of famers, a few contenders and holds the single best win of the decade. Also some of the contenders you say he missed out on didn’t emerge as players until either the very end of the decade or going into the 40’s. Schmeling’s career was basically done by then and boxing was going into a new era. If we’re only talking 1930’s. Then I struggle to find more than 2-3 guys who MIGHT rank above him

 

After the easy Baer and Carnera destructions Louis got over confident. Probably thought if Baer was that easy and he beat Schmeling it was going to be another easy one and he didn’t prepare properly. Scmelimg a good pro studied film and saw that Louis dropped his left low after jabbing and prepared to fire rights over the left. He earned it but really wasn’t in Louis’ league.