American novelist Jack London wrote a ... the minds of many when Joe Louis emerged as the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed the envelope of ...

He broke the barriers for many black people who wanted to thrive ... acknowledged him as the greatest heavyweight boxer.

George Foreman's death is still being felt in the boxing world ... and now the filmmaker behind the "Big George Foreman" ...

Few people in the boxing community are more universally adored and respected than the legendary Teddy Atlas, who had an ...

The young boxer had become a symbol of enormous ... but Louis was comfortable taking on the mantle of the American people. "Here I was, a black man," he would recall. "I had the burden of ...