Schmelling Threw the Second Louis Fight

A more realstic statement: Louis landed many illegal punches. Should the fight have been declared a NC? My view is that the back and other illegal punches were accidental and a result of the fury of the moment. Max was not going to make it through the first round that night, period!

 

In all fairness.... How is this anymore ridiculous than all those people who claim Michael Spinks was terrified of Mike Tyson? Unless you know either guy personally then you can’t say what was going on in their heads

 

So then how do you account for then drafting him into the Para's at age 35 then having him jump over Crete where he contracted dysentery. Your theory holds no water.

 

Louis was fighting for a cause and redemption. Schmeling didn't like the Nazi's. He declined meeting Hitler twice until finally doing it the third time and said something like I went to the white house to meet the President, that doesn't make me a Democrat.

This fight was a dress rehearsal for World War II. Schmeling was thought to be past his best for the first fight.

I don't think he threw the fight but I think he was fine with Louis winning it in hindsight.

I have spoken to many people alive when the event was happening. This boxing match meant more than we will know. The buzz was on the level of landing a man on the moon.

 

You'd think that Schmeling would have taken a dive in the first KD if this was the case, and not taken over 40 punches and 3 KD's before getting carted off to hospital. There was tension before the first fight too and Shcmeling made sure that he won it.

This I file under the same drawer as Jack Johnson took a dive against Willard. File 13.

It's simply a case of a younger man in his prime with intense motivation beating a man over the hill and under pressure from both the Germans and the Americans. Schmeling must have been the loneliest man in the world waiting for the fight to start in the dressing room.

 

And he added the painful low scream that many heard at ringside....as Nazi Germany cut the audio feed to the home Public.

 

The OP might want attention, so I'm not sure why only one poster responded the proper way by asking him/her "Why did you come to this conclusion?"

The responses were comedy though...