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Fist of the Reich

Max Schmeling was the first German-born world heavyweight champion and the only boxer to defeat Joe Louis in “The Brown Bomber’s” prime. A

“When I gazed at him I was thinking: ‘Tonight, I’m going to kill you.’” — Carlos Monzon on Nino Benvenuti

Of all the most memorable rivalries in the long history of boxing, that between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta

Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression

“He entered to the strains of ‘Hotel California,’” wondered HBO’s Jim Lampley. “So will it be heaven, or will it