Peter Mueller-Hans Stretz

Anyone ever see Peter Mueller Vs. Hans Stretz from 1952??? Wow what a bizarre fight. Mueller is tearing into Stretz in 8th round. Stretz grabs onto Mueller and holds tight. The ref comes over and seperates them at which point the film jumps the split second Mueller has literally laid out the referee. Im talking out cold on his back. Mueller then goes after Stretz again at which point the ring begins fill with cornermen. As Stretz' cornermen try to rescue him Mueller goes absolutely berserk and turns and chases after his own cornermen, literally chasing them out of the ring, threatening to hit them. One of the cornermen is too slow and Mueller literally grabs him around the legs and throws him out of the ring, then turns and tries to rush Stretz and his cornermen again. Finally he gives up the fight, steps out of the ring onto the ring apron and raises his arms in victory. Then he leaves the arena. Wow...

 

Interesting. My copy is slightly different than that copy and doesnt have a time code. Mine came from Europe, I wonder where that one came from...

 

obviously...

 

Not likely. Where my copy differs is actually the shots of the crowd. The timecoded copy on Youtube has shots of the crowd making shocked or "oohing and ahhing" faces inserted where mine doesnt. It also has a dramatized shot of the referees feet which mine doesnt have. Mine has all of the action seen in the Youtube clip and one of the crowd shots. The most interesting part, and the part that is missing from both clips is the actual punch that laid out the referee.

 

They used to do that a lot with fights for some reason. I think in some places actually showing a knockout punch must have been considered too violent or something.