Schmeling

Though Louis had lost to Schmeling previously, Louis knocked out Schmeling in less than two minutes.

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Joe Louis's knockout of Max Schmeling is one such occurrence.

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The temptation to view sports events as symbolizing matters of larger significance is too infrequently resisted, but the second Louis-Schmeling fight merits the distinction.

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When he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Max Schmeling was one of the pallbearers.

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By beating Braddock, Louis had proved that he had overcome this KO by Schmeling.

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Louis in effect carried the standard for freedom and democracy; Schmeling was fascism's favorite.

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And in two minutes, four seconds it was over: Louis attacked ferociously from the opening bell, knocking down Schmeling three times before the referee finally stopped it.

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As Mr. Roberts notes, though, Louis would not feel like the true world champion until he avenged a 12th-round knockout loss the year before to the German fighter Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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The Louis-Schmeling rematch came on June 22, 1938, precisely a year after Louis's fight with Braddock.

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Whether Schmeling liked it or not — some claim he did, others that he didn't — the boxer known as the "Black Uhlan of the Rhine" was Adolf Hitler's poster boy.

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