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. The two ...

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 ...

BERLIN -- Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy. Though he thrilled Germany by knocking out Joe Louis, there was another side to the fighter that Hitler ...

Schmeling, who fought Louis in two of the most politically charged sporting events ever on the eve of World War II, once hid two Jewish boys in his apartment from marauding Nazis and later reportedly ...

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