Louis vs Schmeling I -- An All-Time Great Upset

Joe Louis vs Schmeling (1936)

How Joe Louis and Max Schmeling shattered Adolf Hitler's dream of a 1000 Year Reich in the confines of a boxing ring

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Vladimir Savekov on Instagram: "June 19, 1936 Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in what has become one of this biggest upsets in boxing world and not only! ❤️ 💎 I leave Langston Hughes explain this with this short quote of his : "I walked down Seventh Avenue and saw grown men weeping like children, and women sitting in the curbs with their heads in their hands. All across the country that night when the news came that Joe was knocked out, people cried." Joe Louis (USA) vs. Max Schmeling (Nazi

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