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

On the heels of the White House UFC event, a new History Channel documentary revisits a time when combat sports worked to take down fascism rather than prop it up.

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 ...

A documentary on Joe Louis and Max Schmeling debuts June 19 on The HISTORY Channel, 90 years after their first fight at Yankee Stadium in 1936.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — While he wasn’t the flashiest or the most flamboyant, there’s no denying that Joe Louis is one of the greatest heavyweight boxers ever to enter the ring. The Detroiter ...