In a time when his people were still subject to lynchings, discrimination and oppression, when the military was segregated ...

September 28: Max Schmeling is born in Klein-Luckow, in Germany's Brandenburg province. Christmas Day: African American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out Canadian Tommy Burns in 14 rounds, becoming the ...

Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized and galvanized the hopes, ...

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 ...

On the 28th of September, Max Schmeling celebrated his 99th birthday at home in Hamburg, Germany. A reporter, Florian Kalle, quoted Schmeling as saying that the word “celebrated” is not quite right.

Algunos boxeadores dejan todo en el cuadrilátero, otros además, dejan su alma en nuestro mundo. Este es el caso de Maximilan Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling. Mejor ...

"Max Schmeling" turns out to be a run-of-the-mill biography without the outrageous quirks, shoddy storytelling and cliche-laden plots that have made the prolific filmmaker a regular at the Razzies. By ...