The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King forever bound the two men in history.
Watch Chapter 1 of Roads to Memphis.
Jack Miley, sports columnist for the New York Daily News, admitted he underestimated Max Schmeling in 1936.
Champion boxers were some of the best paid athletes in the world — but the businessmen behind the bouts saw the greatest profits.
Boxing manager Joe Jacobs was an unstoppable public relations dynamo.
Roxborough appeared to Louis as "well encased in dignity and legitimacy." Roxborough saw in Louis the chance to make big money.
Read the stories of the 1936 and 1938 Louis–Schmeling fights, as recalled by the boxers in their autobiographies.
From Jack Johnson to Joe Louis, black athletes challenged the color line in America.
A lightweight at 135 pounds, Blackburn fought well against larger men.
Jack Dempsey's boxing style consisted of constantly bobbing and weaving, and his attacks were furious and sustained.
When Schmeling saw a film of a heavyweight championship fight in his early teenage years, he was hooked.
Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936.
