It is upon us. The dawning of the modern heavyweight division is bursting onto the scene. It's the final decade of the "Black ...

Some of boxing’s greatest ever have been undisputed heavyweight champions during their career and now Oleksandr Usyk is the ...

After the first African American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson lost to Willard in 1915, no black boxer fought for the title until 1937, because Joe Louis, who had just lost to Max Schmeling ...

The contract, which is being auctioned by Lelands, is from Detroit legend Joe Louis’ final professional ... reigning as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement ...

Joe Louis, Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis did – but the following really did fail in the ‘champion’ part when it came to wearing the heavyweight crown. Boxing’s alphabet title lunacy gives ...

Working against him is the fact that he was never the lineal champion and eschewed the ... In 1941, he challenged Joe Louis for the heavyweight crown. Ahead handily through 12, he was knocked ...

There is also another sculpture of Joe Louis located in downtown Detroit ... Louis became boxing’s World Heavyweight champion in 1937, which was a title that he held until 1949.

A weight class in boxing is a measurement of a boxer's weight range. In professional boxing, the top division is known as heavyweight, and in amateur boxing, super heavyweight. Each boxer's weight ...

Looking back in history, here were some of the happenings in the Cookeville area for the week of Oct. 27-Nov. 2, as recorded in the pages of the Herald-Citizen: ...

The bronze statue is 25 feet 6 inches × 24 feet 6 inches. Joe Louis was one of the greatest American heavyweight boxers of all time. He was the world heavyweight champion from June 22, 1937 – March 1, ...

Great athletes have been born all across America. Serena Williams may have gotten her start on tennis courts in Compton, but ...