Joe Louis and Max Schemling were global stars, ferocious foes and ultimately friends in their legendary boxing careers.

A documentary on Joe Louis and Max Schmeling debuts June 19 on The HISTORY Channel, 90 years after their first fight at ...

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 ...

Joe Louis Barrow Jr. shares memories of his father, the 20th century boxer Joe Louis, as a new History Channel documentary on his life debuts on Friday, June 19 ...

Before the rematch that shook the world, Schmeling pulled off one of boxing's greatest upsets, exposing a flaw in the ...

Joe Louis Barrow Jr., son of the legendary 20th century heavyweight, took part in a new documentary on his father's life for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Boxing,” journalist Larry Merchant says in a documentary set to air this month, “is really the most personal of sports.” But when it came to two epic bouts in the 1930s between ...

The producers of a biopic on boxer Joe Louis have launched a crowdfunding campaign for the project. Bill Duke, Gil Adler and Joel Eisenberg, who unveiled the project in November to Variety, started ...

BERLIN -- Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy. Max Schmeling, right, throws a right at Joe Louis in an early round of their heavyweight bout in New York ...

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 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 ...