Joe Louis secured stunning first-round KO win against Nazi boxer Max Schmeling on this day in 1938 with devastating consequences
TODAY has a very special place in boxing history. It is the 80th anniversary of the most terrifying toxic tear-up of the 20th century. June 22, 1938 was the scene of a brutal one-man blitzkrieg when Joe Louis took only 124 seconds to destroy and paralyse German Max Schmeling, at New York’s Yankee Stadium. The […]