On Jan. 9, 1942, heavyweight champion Joe Louis won his 20th straight title defense, knocking out Buddy Baer in the first round. The next day, he enlisted in the Army. For good measure, Louis donated ...

For 12 years — longer than any fighter past or present — Joe Louis would be the undisputed king of boxing. So dominant, in fact, that the “Brown Bomber” transcended the stringent racial barriers of ...

January 9, 1942, was barely a month since Pearl Harbor was attacked and America was at war. But the walls of the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City resounded with a rather unseen cheer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The date was July 4, 1910, the location was Reno, Nevada, and the event scheduled to take place was billed as the “Fight of the ...

Louis enlisted in the Army in 1942, rising to the rank of sergeant. Kept stateside, he fought in hundreds of exhibition matches to entertain the troops and raise money for the military. (U.S. Army) ...