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.

President Ronald Reagan arranges for Louis to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Max Schmeling serves as a pall bearer. Joe Louis is inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame ...

June 19 - Max Schmeling, an 8-1 underdog, shocks the boxing world by flooring Joe Louis in the fourth round, then hurting over and over with right hands and then stopping him in the 12th ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner, floored Max Schmeling three times and won their ... demanded a reported $1.2 million in back taxes, interest and penalties, and he suffered the humiliation ...

But, heavyweight boxers prominently made a name for themselves in the 2nd half of the 20th century. The heavyweight division ...

Boxing has been around for over a century, and a number of elite boxers have emerged over that time, but who are the very ...

Louis was raised in Detroit and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time, but he ...

The term Bronx Bombers was officially coined back in 1936. A boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis was set to take ...

Roberto Durán is widely regarded as the best lightweight of all time, holding the title from 1972 to 1979. His remarkable ...

The city of Detroit is issuing an open call for a sculptor to create a new statue of Detroit legend Joe Louis.

"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning ... his loss to Germany's Max Schmeling - viewed as a Nazi ...