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Max Schmeling KO'd
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:16 pm
by Ace
Pity this legend passed away at 99 this week. Fantastic person and someone we can all learn something from.
Re: Max Schmeling KO'd
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:40 pm
by Jonboy
Legend is correct, besides boxing he was a Paratrooper , sw action in the Battle of Crete and ended his days a working director of Coca-Cola, Amazing when you consider he had never been to university.
Re: Max Schmeling KO'd
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:47 pm
by Ace
ending his days? He was Head of Coca-Cola in Germany for many years before retiring to run a village pub where he regularly entertained boxing fans who gathered from all over to speak with him.
Do you know he paid for Joe Louis's funeral as Joe was skint when he died?
Re: Max Schmeling KO'd
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:22 pm
by mart
He was lucky to survive Crete. Paratrooper losses were so high that Hitler (allegedly) ordered that they never be used again.
Mart