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 ...

BERLIN -- Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy. Max Schmeling, right, throws a right at Joe Louis in an early round of their heavyweight bout in New York ...

A documentary examining the heavyweight rivalry between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling will premiere Friday on The HISTORY Channel, exactly 90 years after the two first met in the ring at Yankee Stadium.

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 ...

Joe Louis Barrow Jr., son of the legendary 20th century heavyweight, took part in a new documentary on his father's life for ...

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 ...

He looked like he was praying to the good Lord To 'Have mercy on me, please.' --Bill Gaither Blues singer and guitarist Bill Gaither probably didn't sleep much the night of June 22, 1938. He was too ...

We left you last week with Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in the first round before an astonished world. It was such a huge event that a nation, a footstep away from a war with Germany, rejoiced ...

The producers of a biopic on boxer Joe Louis have launched a crowdfunding campaign for the project. Bill Duke, Gil Adler and Joel Eisenberg, who unveiled the project in November to Variety, started ...

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 ...