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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The June 1938 boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling became known as one of the biggest sporting moments of the 20th Century. But as WWII loomed, their fight became much larger than a ...

Though it is not a prerequisite of them happening, rematches, by their very nature, tend to be examples of things fans want to see repeated. This hunger can be due to a controversy, either in the ...

When "The Brown Bomber" avenged his loss to Germany's Max Schmeling - viewed as a Nazi ... Fighting under the name Joe Louis, so his mother wouldn't find out, he won 50 of 54 amateur bouts and ...