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

Turki Alalshikh, Dana White’s boxing partner, invokes Muhammad Ali’s legacy to counter criticism about the new league’s lack ...

Turki Alalshikh has had to come out and defend the legacy of the Ring Magazine's belt after partnership with TKO.

Beyond his athletic prowess, Ali's charisma and activism outside the ring cemented his legacy as a true champion of the people. Joe Louis – The Brown Bomber Who Dominated a Decade Joe Louis ...

Peering carefully at Ali's face, he shouted, 'Yes! Joe Louis!' Ali nodded in acknowledgement. Later he joked, 'He's pretty far along. Let him think I'm Joe Louis.'" Ali also had an exhibition ...

Ali's bold declaration ... Another pivotal figure was Joe Louis, whose 1938 rematch against Max Schmeling was more than a boxing match; it was a battle against Nazi ideology.

Twenty years after Johnson lost the heavyweight title to Jess Willard, a talented young boxer from Detroit named Joe Louis began to rise ... boxer Muhammad Ali came to see the play.

"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...

In so doing, Joe Louis called a halt to a heavyweight reign that remains unequaled in its number of consecutive defenses: 25 (or 26 if one includes a quasi-exhibition in 1944), over a span of 11 ...

The fear of a powerful, uncontrollable black man remained on the minds of many when Joe Louis emerged as the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A project like the Joe Louis Greenway has been years in the making, and as work continues to connect Detroit with three other cities, organizers ...

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 ...