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 ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner, floored Max Schmeling three times and won their much-publicized June 22, 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium in a first-round knockout. In a time when his people ...

July 4 - Joe Louis makes his pro debut by KOing Jack Kracken, one round, Chicago. Nov 16 - James J. Braddock defeats John Henry Louis, 10 rounds, New York. March 10 - Max Schmeling avenges a ...

Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis ... was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June.

In more recent years, MacGregor has become synonymous with affordable clubs aimed at the more price-conscious player, such as the new V-Max series. I was sent the new V-Max driver and took it out ...

The epicentre of it all for the past 38 years has been Joe Louis Arena. And at the end of the year it will close for good. I went to Detroit in March expecting to learn what the arena meant to the ...

from Max himself (Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy), to Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), it is Immortan Joe, portrayed brilliantly by Hugh Keayes-Byrne in Mad Max: Fury Road and Lachy Hulme in Furiosa ...

Trader Joe's was born in 1958 as a small chain of Southern California convenience stores opened by a drugstore executive named Joe Coulombe. In 1967 he changed the stores' name from Pronto Markets ...

"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 ...