his name - prince william arthur philip louis windsor, and his royal highness prince william of wales inching closer to war with nazi germany. then came a humid night at yankee stadium, a fight for thek man would knock hitler's idea of aryan superiority out flat. man the backdrop was simple.oe a heavyweight fight with a title on the line featuring a pair of boxers who'd squared up onced joe louis, a young man looking to avenge defeat. "this one is all right, and this one is all right two" on the other, a 32-year-old max schmeling, a former champ. "max schmeling is in new york to train for his long anticpiated crack at the world heavyweight title." 22, 1938 so special was nearly everything else surrounding it. louis was just the second african-american to become heavyweight champ, beating james braddock to take the title in 1937. he became a symbol of what blackmericans could become the civil rights movement began to make inroads. schmeling was the complicated champion of nazi germany. a man who once raised the nazi salute after beating an american in hamburg. a guy who had teaith hitl