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Offline Shuckins

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Max Schmelling Dead
« on: February 04, 2005, 04:42:05 PM »
Had no idea he was still alive.   News reports stated that he was 99 years old.

Two bouts with Joe Louis.  Won the first in 1936, but got his brains beat out in the second in 1938.

A paratrooper in the Wehrmacht, Schmelling took part in the German invasion of the island of Cyprus during World War II.
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Re: Max Schmelling Dead
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2005, 05:07:12 PM »
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got his brains beat out in the second in 1938.


That's probably what killed him.
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2005, 05:17:37 PM »
How successful was he in invading cypress?
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2005, 05:19:19 PM »
He survived it... I'd say that's pretty successful.
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2005, 05:28:03 PM »
I thought it was Crete.
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Offline Shuckins

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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2005, 05:32:03 PM »
Whoops!  You're right Babek...Crete it is.
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Offline Gh0stFT

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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2005, 06:14:13 PM »
99 years old, i say he survived everything.
Now R.I.P. Max.

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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2005, 10:31:19 PM »
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Whoops!  You're right Babek...Crete it is.


how can we know any of the story was true then?
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