joe louis beat max schmeling schmeling whether or not our buddy represented the nazis right. no i'll correct that one schmeling beat him the 1st time shelling me lewis in a fight in new york and it was no one believed that they had a rematch and lewis not doubt schmeling early but schmeling went on to be strongly anti nazi are spoke against them as it causes he lived in europe and he was quite a fighter but there was politics reigning because germany was beginning its invasions of various countries and he was this german heavyweight who did defeat joe louis in that 1st fight. you know it's funny i think back to. how different it was 1968 i'm a little kid i'm sitting there in miami with my mom and dad my dad and i watch sports together all the time and suddenly when we saw tommie smith and john carlos raised their hands and at the time the country was going through all kinds of strife and it was not embraced in fact i think the networks looked at it as an embarrassment everybody attacked them if they did it today they would be embraced. so it's going to he's a jump from times