For 12 years — longer than any fighter past or present — Joe Louis would be the undisputed king of boxing. So dominant, in fact, that the “Brown Bomber” transcended the stringent racial barriers of ...

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You wouldn’t think it to look at him — this short, fat, bowling ball of a man with the Jersey accent and the cinderblock head — but he was famous once. If you owned a radio and lived in the United ...

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 ...

Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling was never just a heavyweight rivalry, it became a global referendum on identity, propaganda, and the future of a world sliding toward war. This is the full story of the 1936 ...

Seventy-six years ago this weekend, on March 1, 1949, one of the greatest fighters of all time announced his retirement from the sport. In so doing, Joe Louis called a halt to a heavyweight reign that ...