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Quote Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom View Post
December 3, 1963

~ A 'New' Max Schmeling ~

After '11-Straight' wins, Karl was matched with 'solid-punching' Helmut Ball in an
Eliminator for the German Light-Heavyweight Championship on November 7, 1959
at the Killesburghalle in Stuttgart.

In a 'shocker' Karl was flattened by a Knockout {Ko'd in 7}
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Not one to rest and sulk, 5-weeks {December 12, 1959} later Karl was back in the Ring and
winning, as he scored an impressive {W Dec 8} over 32 1/2 year-old 'veteran' Dutch
Light-Heavyweight - Wim Snoek, a fighter he defeated by {W Dec 8} earlier on June 6, 1959.
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Next up, was Karl's '1st' American opponent. On December 30, 1959 > at the Sportpalast in
Berlin, Karl was matched with 'cagey' veteran 33 year-old New York Light-Heavyweight -
Jimmy 'The Spoiler' Slade who had a record of 35-20-5 with {10 KO's}

Karl, now at {190 lbs.} boxed impressively, and won an 8-Round Decision over Jimmy {181 lbs.}
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why don't we know more about Mr Ball? Why haven't we heard more about Helmet Ball? He seems to have been a heavy hitter a strong right hand punching power punching. He certainly knocked out Carl Mildenberger in 7 rounds and you would think this would catapult him at least into the top 12 heavy weights right at that time
Think Ive finally worked out where all this is leading:

1957 Boxing 'world embarrassed' 'Announcers of the day'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Took the piss out of 'fighters to regularly'.
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Heard to say through the large metal trumpet "Helmut Ball fighting out of Bell End".
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Coonts, this isnt the wrestling you know,the army would of beat Cassius Clay!