Max Schmeling vs Michael Spinks

it is exactly my opinion

 

I agree, Michael would be up on the scorecards though

 

Max wins

 

Max would stop Michael, he had a heavy right hand, Michael would win his share of the rounds but I believe a Prime Schmeling carries a heavier punch then the versions of Holmes that Spinks fought and one Holmes right hand late in fight 2 had Spinks in bad shape. Look how easily Mike Tyson tore through Spinks granted Tyson and Schmeling couldn't be more opposite but in my opinion Spinks does not stack up well against some of the better heavyweights of all time.. Max is not an all time great but he is upper echelon in my view and he had heavy hands. The heavier punching former heavyweight champions in my eyes most all would get to Michael and take him out.. I would say Max tko13 in a good fight..

 

Well, Schmeling wasn´t really inconsistent. He had a weak streak around ´35 where he lost to Baer, in a close competative fight up to the KO, drew with Uzcudun, who he beat before and afterwards and in a fight that probably was a hometown decision, and lost to Hamas, which he avenged shortly afterwards. Outside of that he was at the top of his game for 9 years in a very good division, not counting the robbery against Sharkey.

Max is an atg, not like Louis or Ali but he is one. :bart

 

Hes right there, but I wouldn't have him in my top 10 I don't believe but I feel as though he is a Great just not an ATG.. Out of curiosity where would you rank him in your atg heavyweight rankings??

 

Somewhere between 13 and 20. Changes all the time, him Charles, Walcott, Dempsey, Wills, Langford, Patterson are all pretty much interchangable. Wills shouldn´t be lower than 15 though, I think. He´s my idol though I tend to rank him high, rarely above 15 though.

 

I think Max would be the one who succeeds in inducing his counter punching preference between these two masters at it. He was also capable of starting fast, as he demonstrated with Walker and Heuser, and might well replicate the Walker template: Exploit Michael's characteristic slow start, then set back to counter punch, wear down and pick apart. Michael lived for that one fatal mistake by an opponent at 175 (like Vonzell Johnson backing away from a break with his hands down), but the vigilant Schmeling wouldn't give it to him.

Styles make fights, and while Louis was obviously far greater than Max, I believe the Schmeling of Uzcudun I (who only failed to stop Paulino because he hurt his right hand in round five) and Stribling (where he was bursting with energy following 15 rounds of 1931's Ring FOTY) would have always had Joe's number in a first time matchup. (Keep in mind that Schmeling was prepared for the lethal and peaking Louis of the Max Baer fight, not the under trained "I thought I was hot ****" sucker he got.)

 

Who wins this and how?

 

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I miss Burt.

 

TBF that was 7 years ago

 

Ssssshhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

Very very good posts here. My writing limitations keep me from adding anything of much use so I'll just say I have Schmeling here in a chess match type of fight. He mite catch him for a stoppage.