Watch Max Scmeling destroy Joe Louis here--great quality video

[Mars_ax]

Paybacks are a mother-fucker.

[brocktonblockbust]

Paybacks are a mother-fucker.

what I could never understand was why Schmeling held onto the rope like that like it was the end of the world----he had just got smacked with that amazing right hand by Joe but he seemed no more than stung by it, yet he held the rope tenaciously after that for the full barrage of head and body shots. What was he hoping there? That he could turn his body away from the shots? I just cannot figure out that reaction---always felt badly for him when I see him turn away helplessly and confusedly from Louis and just get pounded like that. He just froze up. Looks like anyway. Guy like that shoulda ran his ass into the center of the ring or taken a fucking knee to get an 8 count atleast.

[Mars_ax]

Paybacks are a mother-fucker.

what I could never understand was why Schmeling held onto the rope like that like it was the end of the world----he had just got smacked with that amazing right hand by Joe but he seemed no more than stung by it, yet he held the rope tenaciously after that for the full barrage of head and body shots. What was he hoping there? That he could turn his body away from the shots? I just cannot figure out that reaction---always felt badly for him when I see him turn away helplessly and confusedly from Louis and just get pounded like that. He just froze up. Looks like anyway. Guy like that shoulda ran his ass into the center of the ring or taken a fucking knee to get an 8 count atleast.

Max was just fucked in the rematch, Louis was so pumped, Schmeling would have needed a fucking baseball bat to win the 2nd fight and even that may not have worked.

The greatest thing about these 2 fights is that Louis and Schmeling became life long friends afterwards, one of the best human interest stories of all time.