So now that the word has been defined in a contemporary setting, let me evoke its new meaning by declaring that Max Schmeling was a P.I.M.P. Max grew up in Germany during the impoverished years ...

Re “Max Schmeling, 99; Boxer Became, for a Time, Symbol of Nazi Germany After Defeating Louis,” obituary, Feb. 5: I saw Schmeling in Germany during the winter of 1944-1945 when I was a ...

BERLIN -- Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy. Max Schmeling, right, throws a right at Joe Louis in an early round of their heavyweight bout in New ...

Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink, about the death of former heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling. The German boxer, famous for his two championship fights with the American Joe Louis ...

BERLIN — Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy. Though he thrilled Germany by knocking out Joe Louis, there was another side to the fighter that ...

FOR sheer savagery, you would be hard-pressed to come up with a confrontation more stark than the second meeting in the ring of Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. That’s the fight referenced in the ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship.

Unbeaten in twenty-five fights, Louis had scored twenty-one knockouts over such top-notch contenders as Max Baer (KO 4), King Levinsky (KO 1), Primo Carnera (KO 6) and Roscoe Toles (KO 6).

that being their share of the sums paid by 40,000 fight patrons to see last week’s Milk Fund bout between Heavyweights Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun in the Yankee Stadium. Herr Schmeling and ...

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 ...

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 ...