Comments Thread For: Foreman: Wilder-Joshua Would Be Biggest Heavyweight Fight Ever

[Vae Victis]

Close but not THE FIGHT.
Closed circuit was invented for the fight .

Two undefeated heavyweight champions .
Both gold medalists.

It was the second Fight of the Century and it was bigger than the first one.
We can argue Johnson-Jeffries might have been bigger than Louis-Schmelling

You'll want to check this link for some background on closed circuit TV:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/04/26/closed-circuit-boxing-pre-cooke/f771a962-ae30-45ae-8e80-0bd09d2f47eb/?noredirect=on

The June 1951 Joe Louis-Lee Savold bout was the first fight on a theater-television network in the United States. The first drive-in theater showing of a live fight was the Marciano-Walcott heavyweight title fight in September 1952. All of Marciano's title fights were on theater telecasts in the 1950s.

Most of Floyd Patterson's title fights were on theater-TV, including his three title fights with Ingemar Johansson and his two with Sonny Liston during the 1950s and 1960s. Ali won the title from Liston in a 1964 closed-circuit theater telecast.

[u122564]

Let me be the first to add that although Schmeling served as a paratrooper in WWII, he was never a member of the **** Party. Also, Schmeling (who made out well financially after WWII) became life long friends with Joe Louis and provided significant financial help to Joe (after the IRS wrecked Joe financially).

yes correct, he also had a ***ish manager. it didnt stop the ****'s using him as propaganda though.

[Motofan]

George is always super respectful of the current generation of fighters. He's always said **** like this.

[champion4ever]

I agree. If they continue to allow this fight to marinate it can potentially be the biggest grossing heavyweight fight ever. A lot Deontay Wilder's haters took his words and deliberately distorted and misconstrued them.

What Wilder said is that the fight itself was more than worth $100 mil; Not that he was worth a $100 mil. Next time, live to listen and learn you dumb motherfuckers!

[Vae Victis]

yes correct, he also had a ***ish manager. it didnt stop the ****'s using him as propaganda though.

From Wikipedia:
When he returned to Germany after his defeat by Joe Louis, Schmeling was now shunned by the ****s. He won both the German and European heavyweight championships on the same night, with a first-round knockout of Adolf Heuser. During the **** purge of ***s from Berlin, he personally saved the lives of two ***ish children by hiding them in his apartment.[6] It was not the first time that Schmeling defied the **** regime's hatred for ***s. As the story goes, Hitler let it be known through the Reich Ministry of Sports that he was very displeased at Schmeling's relationship with Joe Jacobs, his ***ish fight promoter, and wanted it terminated, but Schmeling refused to bow even to Hitler.

[Oshio]

Is this about nationalism or what?! Joshua-Wilder won't even make the top 5 list of greatest clash ever