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 ...

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 Century.” Roughly 20,000 people packed into a newly built, massive ...

Joe Louis Southern Kitchen is expanding to downtown Detroit. This will be the third location for the restaurant named after the famed boxer. It's known for Southern-style comfort food and all-day ...

There are now two statues commemorating Joe Louis in his adopted hometown of Detroit, Michigan – though this will be the first to feature his full likeness. From 1986 until now, the only statue of ...

*Bill Duke has teamed with producers Gil Adler and Joel Eisenberg to develop a film about boxer Joe Lewis. Duke inked a deal with holders of rights to Lewis’ story that will see him co-produce and ...

And perhaps the loudest a Zamboni was ever cheered at Joe Louis Arena was the night when "Stone Cold" Steve Austin hit the ring — literally — while driving a Zamboni during an episode of "Monday Night ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit opened a new, 2-mile stretch of the Joe Louis Greenway and unveiled a new sculpture to honor the athlete for whom the ...

Though the Detroit Red Wings won the most at Olympia Stadium, with seven Stanley Cups, they perhaps won the best at The Joe. It was there that the Wings claimed their first Cup since the 1950s, ending ...