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 ...

Worn in his first historic bout with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1936, Joe Louis’ boxing gloves represent a very special chapter in American sports and social history. While the 1936 match was a ...

Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, touted as a Nazi ideal in 1930s Germany, is best known for two highly symbolic and historically charged bouts against American champion Joe Louis. Schmeling ...

Max Schmeling, the German boxer who defied Nazi dictates even as Hitler touted him as an Aryan superstar, died at 99. Schmeling died Feb. 2 in Hollenstedt, Germany, and was buried last Friday, The ...

One man determined to change this is Agit Kabayel. The fighter from Bochum takes on Damian Knyba at at Oberhausen's Rudolf ...