For 12 years — longer than any fighter past or present — Joe Louis would be the undisputed king of boxing. So dominant, in fact, that the “Brown Bomber” transcended the stringent racial barriers of ...

Just off the boat -- A regime's embrace -- A star rises in the Midwest -- New York falls in love -- Champion in waiting -- The condemned man -- Victor and vanquished -- Climbing back -- A German ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship. The two ...

Thoughts on the life of boxer Max Schmeling, whose fights with Joe Louis became a symbol of a looming confrontation between the United States and Nazi Germany. Schmeling fought in Hitler's army, but ...

In New York’s Yankee Stadium last week, Germany’s Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit’s Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight. The bout was watched by a crowd of 40,000 ...

There certainly is a roll call of names like Rocky Marciano, then Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and now in the present Wladimir Klitschko, ...

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Two of the first people I spoke with yesterday about Max Schmeling were surprised to learn that he had died this week. They didn't know he was alive in the first place. Come September, he would have ...