Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMicK
IMO the most famous one has to be Schmeling vs. Louis (Germany vs. USA) or more so Hitler vs. USA
yep hands down;

n BBC3 few nights ago there was a doc about that fight, and Louis v Schmeling II was just out of this world watched/listend too... there were something like 130 million people in the us at the time, and they said over 70million people tuned into it. Yankee stadium was full with over 70,000 people in there watching the fight. The fight was broadcast live to the german army, you would asume most of, if not all were listening to that fight - same for the US army?

One of the people who was talking about the fight said something like"after louis had one, for the first time we felt that hittler could be stopped" im paraphrasing but it was something like that...