Joe Lewis: The heavyweight hero who came out of the fascism

by Owais Tabassum: The year 1938. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party had just included Austria. Humanity kept its breath while the world was swinging at the edge of the most destructive conflict in history – World War II.

Amidst this disaster, which was looming on the horizon, it was another battle that occupies the center of the lead across the pool in New York City. The air was thick with the smoke fog for the great depression, as seventy thousand spectators mobilized the Yanki Stadium, and faced an estimated one hundred million listeners on the radio all over the world where heavy weight hero Joe Lewis in Germany MAX faced.

Adolf Hitler and “the head of advertising” in the Nazi Party, Joseph Gopls, pushed Schmyling as their advertising in the boxing world and a good reason.

The Schmelle was a stain box, quickly on his feet, and a fenugreek technician who was carrying the lying down of both fists. He proved his capabilities to stop Louis in his first meeting two years ago, which led to his first defeat. He was a tremendous way, and Hitler knew everything well.

General feelings depend on Lewis’s victory; Millions gathered around the cracking of their radio devices in anticipation. This was the attractiveness of the event that President Franklin Roosevelt personally told Lewis: “These are the muscles that we need to defeat the Germans.” The situation was collapsing with tension, and the burden on the shoulders of Louis was heavy.

“FDR” does not worry, they are the mission. He goes towards a central ring in a stylish trips, and benefits from his destructive strength, and hand over overwhelming strikes to the head and body of Schmyling. He dropped him three times, and stopped the competition categorically with the knockout in the first round.

Fascism image was destroyed within 124 seconds.

Joseph Gobls, angry, referred to a feverish in the way to the broadcast engineers to withdraw the plug on the transmission where the Schmelle was located on the ropes, and surrendered to the quantities of Lewis.

With Louis’s word spread quickly, the streets erupted in every state with joy. People sang and danced to celebrate the victory of their hero. Lewis’s victory helped pave the way for race relations throughout the country. Lewis, an American of African origin, was born in Alabama to a joint family, literally fought on his way out of dirt and defeated Adolf Hitler’s idea of ​​Arian’s superiority. Victory was sweet.

Louis then joined the war effort in 1942, becoming an original source of inspiration for the “Captain America” ​​attacks in Marvel in army camps, entertaining the forces and strengthening unity between the various races that fight side by side in these bloody conflicts.

Schmelle, for his part, did not join the Nazi party; His relationship with Forer was complicated. He risked his life and heard to help Jewish children escape persecution. He, too, was a hero.

Returning to the circuit, Louis has ruled as a heavyweight hero for nearly 12 years – an amazing achievement that is still unparalleled to this day. It was not until 1950 that Ezzard Charles excluded

A young Louis later on financial problems, his treatment attracted most of his professional profits, leaving only a small part of his profits. Lewis was also very generous, as he helped family and friends out of the poverty hole. Unfortunately, many Louis commercial projects also failed.

Perhaps the most destructive strike in the Lewis march was not in the ring, but rather from the Tax Authority, which claimed that he owed more than $ 500,000 in rear taxes. With interest and fines, this number swells to more than $ 1,000,000 – equivalent to $ 13 million today. When Lewis’s mother died, her life savings, which of $ 500, left him. Traveling, the Tax Authority seized this amount immediately. While exploring tax laws at that time confirmed that the government acted within its legal rights, I did not find any justification for the moral defect to confiscate a personal gift from a deceased mother to her son.

Lewis, full of debt, slow reactions, and sport on a bald correction, with 66 wins, 52 judges and two breaks only, again to the ring for the last time.

This time, his enemy was nothing but the future Famer hall, a non -defeated record holder in the future, the artist’s devastating row exit; “Brookton Blockbuster” Rocky Marciano.

Although Rocky expressed his regret for his disturbance to fight his hero, whose victory over the Schmelle, he himself celebrated young people. The way Lewis would make you think otherwise. Marceiano had brought Louis in the eighth round with the right -right hand, and sent him through the ropes and outside it from the ring. Since Lewis was helping his feet desperately, a feeling of sadness has passed on the boxing world. Lewis’s boxing profession has ended

Louis’s legacy lives in modern media.

It is great to believe that only decades, we can look at these historical meetings in an amazing color and high identification. Technology has advanced to the point where we can now enter the ring as an ideal graphic show for atmosphere Lewis in the newly released boxing simulation game, “undisputed”. Can fans of that era imagine such a jump? “

Lewis and Chamilt became friends with the remainder of their lives, so that Schmilling Lewis provided financial assistance during his most desirable years. This association was evidence that reconciliation is possible even among enemies at the ends of opposition to the ideological spectrum.

Other characters of boxing and the broader celebrity world, i.e. Jacques Dempse

The boxing icon Mohamed Ali later died of Lewis’s funeral arrangements when he died on April 12, 1981. On the sixty -sixth anniversary of Titanic sinking, the boxing scientist dug one of his most deadly characters.

Joe Lewis lived during an era determined by the deep chapter, racist hatred, second world war and great depression. However, with no more than a pair of boxing gloves, broke ethnic barriers, bridged bridges, a divided nation and fascist expelling.