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Louis vs. Schmeling: Behind the Celebrated Rivalry of Two 20th-Century Heavyweights |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lyn Nofziger |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,316 Words, 7,692 Characters |
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RING OF HATE: JOE LOUIS VS. MAX SCHMELING: THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY
By Patrick Myler
Arcade, $25, 246 pages, illus.
It was A. J. Liebling, I believe, who first referred to boxing as "the sweet science." That is an interesting, if not wholly accurate, description of the only sport of which I know, the purpose of which is to hurt one's opponent. The winner of a boxing match, unless the fight has been fixed, almost always is the fellow (or these days perhaps the woman) who hurts the other fellow the most.
There have been in my day some very good boxers, usually at the lighter weights, who were adept at not getting hit and who, in turn, didn't hit their opponents with much authority. Two lightweights, Willie Pep and Fritzie Zivic, come immediately to mind and they were delights to watc...
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...Myler to the contrary notwithstanding, the second Louis/Schmeling fight was not the "fight of the century." It was over so quickly that it was hardly a fight at all. Nevertheless it was the one bout, more than any of his others, that confirmed Louis' greatness as a fighter and for that reason alone deserves to go down as a classic in ring annals.
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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