The year was 1938. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party had just annexed Austria. Humanity held its breath as the world teetered ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German ... Most of Louis's wins came on knockouts. Schmeling often won on decisions, learning about his opponents in the first rounds and then wearing ...

George Foreman didn't pick Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier or Evander Holyfield when naming his greatest heavyweight of all time.

Fighting under the name Joe Louis, so his mother wouldn't find out ... Louis won his first 27 fights, 23 by knockout, with his most impressive victories being a sixth-round TKO of Primo Carnera ...

June 19: The first Louis-Schmeling fight at Yankee Stadium ends with a surprise knockout victory by Schmeling in the 12th round. June 22: In Chicago's Auditorium, Joe Louis knocks out Jimmy ...

“The Brown Bomber” headhunted for the knockout – but the movement of ... Monroe had it 9-6 to “The Brown Bomber.” Jersey Joe and Louis met six months later at Yankee Stadium, but the ...

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 ...