Max Schmeling

Max Schmeling

Profile info

Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday28 September 1905
Died2 February 2005 (age 99)
Place of birthKlein Luckow, Germany
Known credits24

Biography

Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (28 September 1905 – 2 February 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultural events because of their national associations. Schmeling is the only boxer to win the world heavyweight championship on a foul. Starting his professional career in 1924, Schmeling went to the United States in 1928 and, after a ninth-round technical knockout of Johnny Risko, became a sensation. He became the first to win the heavyweight championship (at that tim…