Heavyweight champ Max Schmeling, 99
Posted: Friday, February 4th, 2005 3:38 pm
BERLIN (AP) — Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy.
Though he thrilled Germany by knocking out Joe Louis, there was another side to the fighter that Hitler tried to portray as an Aryan Superman. …
He said he feared only one thing in a long life that ended Wednesday at the age of 99.
“I don’t want anyone to say I was a good athlete, but worth nothing as a human being — I couldn’t bear that,” Schmeling said in 1993. … Read full obituary
