Professional boxing champions with class, good role models.

I'll add Alexis Arguello. Always a complete gentleman, from what I saw on TV.

 

Just to further irritate the Fuhrer, Max was married to a Jewish woman.

 

There are more great role models from our sport than we could ever name. We only hear about the crooks, bullys etc...

 

All Boys Can...Archies foundation. He had a troubled youth but really turned it around. Always think of Floyd Patterson when I think of role models but idk how he was privately don’t know much of him other then ring ability
Old George foreman
Joe Louis before retirement lol

 

Vernon Forrest

Andre Ward

 

He and his wife, whose income as a famous movie actress was not insubstantial, lost all their savings during the war and had to start all over. Luckily, Max was popular enough in Germany that he was able to parlay his income from a few fights after the war to buy into a Coca-Cola distributorship franchise. As for his "failure" to renounce the Nazis, I don't think he could have done any more than he did and come out of the war alive rather than to be imprisoned and executed. Maybe he could have defected, but there were very few Germans who were not Jews or minorities who did that. Being a patriot to the Fatherland (but not to Hitler's Nazi Party), he probably never seriously considered defecting just like most of us would not consider leaving our native countries if we were not being directly persecuted.