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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...