Mr. Louis is a totally different fighter the second time around. Really admire Mr. Schmeling also. "Class Acts" 🙏

A huge fight. Right at the beginning of World War 2. No sporting event will ever duplicate the magnitude of this. With the backdrop of a world war.

Louis kept his left hand up this fight and avoided those right hands this fight

Man, that was a pretty rough stoppage by today’s standard. When Max was leaning on the ropes, he was done. He only took additional punishment from that point on

Perhaps the most important boxing match in American history although “The Fight of the Century” on March the 8th, 1971 was and still is the greatest one day sporting event ever in my opinion. I don’t feel it is necessary to point out whom the combatants were in that historic event.

La historia de max schmeling es increíble! Dos grandes entres los grandes!

There's a very good movie called Max and Joe which covers their lives and how their fights changed those lives. You should read how beat up Max was. Doctors said it was like he was in a car accident. He had two cracked vertebra! Only thing that kept him on his feet was his determination but it couldn't overcome Joe's power shots.

Not sure why some viewers are trying to diminish Joe Lewis' skills. He dominated Scmeling from the bell and just an unstoppable assault on him. Clean shots everyone! The ref did noting wrong by standards then and standards today. Lewis haters must get over it--Lewis was one of the greatest ever!!

Gotta love how they just replay the whole fight in slowmo

Knowing they were friends makes it great

Damn Joe just stalked him, chopping right hands were just devestating, no way Louis was losing this second fight.

who is speaking at 1:08

Schmeling came out of his corner leaning back. Look at his right shoulder. No way to get power on his right hand.

Max was a tough cookie

The one dislike was Hitler's clone in Brazil.

This was the first great boxfight that was bradcasted life on german television

Joe Louis hit him in the kidney punch and that hurt schmeling

Max suffered internal injuries more commonly seen in traffic accidents.

In second fight thing that made difference ... Joe Louis was fighting to take revenge.... While for Schmeling it was just another match...

I have heard a rumor that Schmeiling took a dive in his second fight with Louis. The fight was sold as an American black vs. a Nazi Aryan superman with Louis being the American favorite.

Fightclup ten gelenler :))

That referee was a travesty...giving Schmeling a break wherever he could, then going into some real "look at me" interventions throughout the chaos, holding back Schmeling's people from helping him up. What an ego trip. Must have been disappointed to have had his day cut so short.

Tyler Kinsey if you did not see that you must be blind ?

No 2 fighters hav ever been under anywhere near th same amount of pressure fr their own skin in th game 2 th hopes of th whole world

i was told he got beat almost to death by joe louis i didnt see that

Schmiling went all he could and more. So many hard hits to the head. Luky, boxers have no brains, and if there were some with a brain it would quickly be beaten out. People pay to see that. Funny them people.

Joe is going to win

I realy despidw the alphabet groups, WBA, ABO, IBF, WBC, etc.

Wtf does joe have twice the corner men. Fishy.

Louis avoided the right hand this fight by keeping his left hand up

Very obvious dive, just goes to show how overrated Joe Louis was.

Louis was so focused he didn't even notice Schmelling come up to him with pleasantries before the fight. Huge fight of course. Would have done a lot to dispel the myth of the Aryan Superman in the common American mind, which had massive consequences in WWII, when you come to think of it. Louis is popularly thought of as the first American to strike a blow against Hitler. Schmelling had knocked an indomitable - looking Louis out two years before, when Max himself was already considered past his best and was supposed to be served up to the Bomber as fist fodder like former champions Sharkey, Carnera, Baer. Imagine if he'd done it again! American soldiers would have gone to Europe with an added anxiety in their minds, Are these guys really superior? Look what that past - it guy did to Joe Louis... Tyson Fury should beware. Louis had to wait two years for revenge, and you saw how he took it. Schmelling won the first fair and square. Fury cheated in his 'victory.' It's on his carcass that Wilder's resentment and revenge will be taken out. You have been warned: it will be savage.

Clearly a fixed fight. Germany was at war and a win by the German would have boost Nazi morale. So Schmmeling took a dive. Notice how he stood in the corner holding on to the ropes and letting Louis pummel him without a defence.

People don't understand that Max was on US soil and had to throw this fight to potentially calm the on set of WW2.

comparing two of them, it looks like there is no intention from Max to fight back. maybe. maybe a fix . Scsmeling looked so booring in this first round. who knows...

Think the first fight was thrown. All of a sudden Joe figured him out that quick. Joe dropped the first fight in my opinion. Idk why. Money or whatever.

Al aleman jamàs se le viò intencion de ganar la pelea.

I just watched both fights back to back...... really ...hes that much better in the 2nd fight...REALLY????.... more plausible explanation is he threw the first fight......ijs

No 8 count for Schmeling that wore him down and lost the fight ---- Lewis was drug up with speed - lol

Schmeling. Was 9 years older than Lewis , if they were equal age Lewis could never beat Schmeling !

could not box shoes the pair of them

I believe that Joe Louis should have lost this fight by disqualification. He did no go to the neutral corner most of the times, instead stayed next to the man ready to punch him as soon as he left his knees from the floor. The referee did not give Schmelig the regulatory eight counts, did not clean his gloves, did not stand in front of him to see his condition, did not stop the fight when Schmeling turned his back to Louis and stopped fighting while letting Louis hit him in his back. The whole two rounds were a disgrace to professional boxing.