Joe Louis and Max Schemling were global stars, ferocious foes and ultimately friends in their legendary boxing careers.
Joe Louis Barrow Jr., son of the legendary 20th century heavyweight, took part in a new documentary on his father's life for ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Boxing,” journalist Larry Merchant says in a documentary set to air this month, “is really the most personal of sports.” But when it came to two epic bouts in the 1930s between ...
A documentary on Joe Louis and Max Schmeling debuts June 19 on The HISTORY Channel, 90 years after their first fight at Yankee Stadium in 1936.
The 1938 boxing rematch between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling is believed to have had the largest audience in history for a single... The Fight of the Century: Louis vs. Schmeling The ...
According to family lore, my policeman grandfather was on duty at Yankee Stadium on the evening of June 22, 1938, when he started chatting with a man from out of town. The little guy had booked a ...
Before the rematch that shook the world, Schmeling pulled off one of boxing's greatest upsets, exposing a flaw in the unbeatable Brown Bomber that nobody else had found. This is the full story of a ...