Max Schmeling, who unwittingly became a symbol of Nazi Germany in two dramatic 1930s bouts with American heavyweight boxer Joe Louis, died Wednesday at his home in Hollenstedt, Germany. He was 99.

Two of the first people I spoke with yesterday about Max Schmeling were surprised to learn that he had died this week. They didn't know he was alive in the first place. Come September, he would have ...

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, becoming the ...

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 York ...

BERLIN, Germany -- The boxing world has been paying tribute to former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, who has died at the age of 99. Schmeling's foundation said the former champion, one of ...

German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, whose bouts against American Joe Louis set off a propaganda war between the Nazi regime and the United States on the eve of World War II, has died at age 99.

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In early winter of 1935, former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling boarded a luxury liner en route to New York from Europe to watch the undefeated power punching fistic sensation Joe Louis ...

MEMORY is unkind to many, but to Max Schmeling more than most. The athletic skills of Germany's only ever world heavyweight boxing champion were matched by his lifelong generosity. But outside Germany ...

The year was 1938. Europe was throbbing to the sound of goose-stepping boots and demented paper-hanger's mad ravings. War was less than 15 months away and every arena was being used for propaganda ...

"Max Schmeling" turns out to be a run-of-the-mill biography without the outrageous quirks, shoddy storytelling and cliche-laden plots that have made the prolific filmmaker a regular at the Razzies. By ...

FRANKFURT, Germany – German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling (search), whose bouts against American Joe Louis (search) set off a propaganda war between the Nazi regime and the United States on the eve ...