The 1938 boxing rematch between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling is believed to have had the largest audience in history for a single... The Fight of the Century: Louis vs. Schmeling The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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