Joe Tex

Jorge E. Echeverria Frau Renhoff December 5th, 2016 Max Schmeling Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried “max” Schmeling was born in Klein Luckow, Providence of Pomerania, German empire on September 28th, 1905. We dont have much information on his family but from what we know, his dad was boxing fanatic. Max became interested in boxing in 1921 when his father took him to the heavy-weight championship between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. Impressed with Dempsey's performance in that…

Talton Price Eng lll. Ms. Q One can not simply discuss the 1920s without mentioning the boxing phenom, Jack Dempsey. He alone became the prototype for all the future superstar athletes that followed. Even other big-time sport enthusiasts’ could not compare to his popularity. Jack Dempsey was significantly important to the 1920s on the grounds that he made sporting events fashionable and knocking out contenders breathtaking. Sporting events expanded and thrived throughout the 1920s due to the…

The great boxing legend Muhammad Ali once said was “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali was one of the best boxers there were because when he was 18 or 19 he joined the Olympic team and then winning a Gold medal by defeating the three time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski. Muhammed Ali was legendary to boxing because of who he was, his accomplishments in boxing, and what he accomplished outside of boxing. Their was a well known boxer named Muhammad Ali, who was known…

Muhammad Ali had two different characters. The first one is the one most people will remember when they hear about Ali’s name. He was loud, rude, and angry. Before fights Ali would start talking about the his opponents and what he’s going to do to them. He called them same name that made his opponents very angry. Before his first meeting with Sonny Liston Ali went to Sonny’s house and calling coward, and he was too scared to fight Ali. How did this affect him? The only way this had effect on his…

The two most known athletes that called the Hill home were baseball legends Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola. They were neighbors who famously grew up together playing ball in field which now called Berra Park, the park of the Hill by coincidence named after Louis Berra who had no relations to Yogi Berra. The street that Yogi Berra’s house lays on…

It’s been little over 21 days since the fighter awoke from a Georges St-Pierre chokehold to discover he had been stripped of his UFC middleweight championship title. But Kelvin Gastelum had other ideas… in the form of a first-round TKO. Gastelum gave Bisping the what’s for in the main event of UFC Fight Night 122 in Shanghai, China. Although Bisping landed some decent counters, ultimately Gastelum out-powered him, switching his lights off like it was NBD. Wow, talk about brutal. Talking…

Inspirational Boxer Have you ever wondered how it would feel like to be in a boxing match? All the excitement people have because of two famous boxers are boxing each other to win a belt, and some money. Alvarez’s road began in 2011 Canelo Alvarez has conquered the boxing world he’s been boxing so many famous boxers that are good, he has fans where he is from Guadalajara, Mexico and all over the world, he’s been through so many tough challenges when he was only 25. His parents were…

Everybody on Earth has at least experienced failure once in their lifetime, no matter if it is even the slightest bit of failure or an unbearable amount. I am one who has experienced the pain and disappointment that can be caused by failure. I have experienced failure several times in my life so far. My times of failure were stressful times for me. Although, these times of failure may seem to be dreadful at the time, but my times of failure are actually the key to my success. The first time…

more money than they do, or save more lives than we do. These people are usually entitled the label “heroes.” Heros are usually strong, and have some sort of superpower to get them to where they are now. Yet no one ever really thinks about the average Joe as being a “hero.” In the Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway develops Santiago as an archetypal hero in order to reveal that average people can be inspirational and just as important as heroes in their lives. Hemingway reveals this by giving…

As one of the three judges during the fight between Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas, I believe the representative for the Boys’ Club should be announced to the audience. From what happened during the boys’ fight, Felix Vargas should be declared winner. Although both players were equally matched in skills, Vargas had more punches than Cruz. During the fight, Felix was the first person to injure his opponent. He trapped Antonio between the ropes of the ring and started punching his midribs with…