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But Patterson made it to the end of the round on his feet. SUMMARY: For a moment in the second round, the fight looked like it might be a repeat of the original as Johansson rocked Patterson with one of his trademark overhand rights. LOCATION: New York City, the Polo Grounds,ĪT STAKE: Johansson’s heavyweight championship, which he had wrested from Patterson after knocking him down seven times in the third round A ripping right to the body caused Schmeling to double over in pain, and in short order Louis registered three knockdowns, prompting referee Arthur Donovan to wave off the abbreviated massacre.
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writer as “a swastika in shorts.”įrom the opening bell of the bout, staged before a packed house of 80,000, the on-a-mission champion made it clear he was out to win quickly and emphatically. Louis was widely seen as the heroic defender of democracy while Schmeling, who was not a Nazi, was – unfairly – depicted by one U.S. “I don’t want nobody to call me champ until I beat Schmeling,” he insisted.Īfter three successful defenses of a bejeweled belt he would go on to hold for 11 years and a record 25 title bouts, Louis, a black American, would get his opportunity to avenge his only defeat to that point against Schmeling, but by then the world was on the verge of a second global conflict and the rematch had taken on connotations that superseded boxing.
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It mattered little to the “Brown Bomber” that he would claim the heavyweight title a year later on an eighth-round KO of Jim Braddock. SUMMARY: It was seen as a huge upset when Germany’s Max Schmeling, an 8-1 underdog despite having reigned as heavyweight champion from 1930 to ’32, floored the undefeated and seemingly invincible Joe Louis in the fourth round before finishing him off in the 12 th round before 42,000 stunned spectators in Yankee Stadium. Will Fury make it back-to-back victories over Wilder, thus clearly establishing his claim of superiority in the rivalry? Or will the “Bronze Bomber” take back what once was his, adding his name to those listed below who reversed previous outcomes in title-changing rematches?ĪT STAKE: Louis’ heavyweight championship 22, 2020, both fighters could possibly make a historic statement, one way or the other. Now, coming nearly 20 months after Fury’s seventh-round stoppage of Wilder on Feb. It could also be reasonably argued that Fury squirreled away enough other rounds to have merited a victory on points. Wilder retained his WBC belt, but he floored Fury in the ninth and 12th rounds, the second knockdown coming within one second of a knockout. PT), is technically their third fight, the initial clash – a split draw on Dec. 9 pairing of WBC World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) and former long-time WBC titlist Deontay Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs), at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, live on pay-per-view (9 p.m.