Boxer King Levinsky and his sister who manages him, Lena Levy, run in a posed photo from 1932.
Harris Krakow, better known by his pugilist name King Levinsky, holds up fish at the fish market, circa 1931.
Fighter King Levinsky, circa 1932.
Boxers James Braddock and King Levinsky spar in Chicago in 1932.
Boxer King Levinsky runs along side a car carrying his sister Lena Levy and Adolph Levy in 1932.
Boxer King Levinsky, circa 1932. Levinsky, real name Harris Krakow, was part of the Krakow fish selling family of Maxwell Street. Levinsky never won any titles, but fought against the biggest names of the time.
Joe Louis, left, and King Levinsky stripped down to shorts and dress shoes for the weighing-in ceremony before their fight at Comisky Park in August 1935. Louis needed just over two minutes to defeat Levinsky.
King Levinsky and his new bride Rose Glickman, also known by her stage name Roxana Sand, eat breakfast at the Hotel LaSalle coffee shop on Aug. 14, 1934. The two met at the World’s Fair the week prior, where Glickman was a fan dancer.
Lena Levy, left, offers her brother Kingfish Levinsky a drink of water after a hard workout sparring with a partner on July 21, 1935, in Round Lake, Illinois.
Fighter King Levinsky, circa 1932.
King Levinsky pulled away at the weights, boxed, joked and puffed on Nov. 11, 1934, while the boxing commission watched to see whether he was fit for his upcoming fight with Art Lasky. They said he was fit and the King replied: “You’re right!”
Lena Levy, seated from left, the manager and sister of boxer King Levinsky, second from left, promoter Joe Foley, boxer Joe Louis and chairman of the Illinois Boxing Commission, Joe Triner, attend the signing of a contract for an upcoming fight to be held between Levinsky and Louis on Aug 7, 1935 at Comiskey Park. The group gathered at a Loop hotel to do the signing on July 3, 1935. Standing in back are co-managers for Louis, John Roxborough and Julian Black.
King Levinsky’s women folk don’t exactly live a life of ease when the husky Chicago heavyweight is training for a fight. Here he has his sister-manager, Lena Levy, left, and his bride of a few weeks out with him for a publicity photo showing “road work” as he prepares to battle Art Sykes on Sept. 20, 1934, at Wrigley Field.
Boxer King Levinsky, real name Harris Krakow, and his sister and manager, Lena Levy, at Jackson Park Hospital, circa 1934.
An early photo of King Levinsky.
Boxers King Levinsky, left, and George Trafton, pose for a photo in 1932. Trafton was with the Decatur Staleys (who became the Chicago Bears) from 1920-21 and again in 1923-32.
Boxing great Joe Louis lands lefts and rights to the chin of King Levinsky as the Kingfish’s legs buckle on his way to the canvas on Aug. 7, 1935. This was the first of the knockdown series that thrilled 39,195 at Comiskey Park.
Fighter King Levinsky, circa 1932.
Lena Levy, left, serves her brother, King Levinsky, breakfast on Sept. 7, 1934.
Boxer King Levinsky with trainer Whitie Ekwert in Chicago, in 1934. Levinsky, real name Harris Krakow, was part of the Krakow fish selling family of Maxwell Street.
King Levinsky, seen here circa 1931, worked in his family’s fish market on Maxwell Street in 1931 even as he was achieving fame as a professional heavyweight boxer.
Sarah Krakow, left, and Annie Minsky, right, work at the family Fish Market on Maxwell Street in Chicago on March 25, 1937. Sarah Krakow is the mother of famous boxer King Levinsky, whose real name is Harris Krakow. Annie is sister to King.
King Levinsky is a principle in the heavy weight fight on Aug. 7, 1935, at Comiskey park, which will attract the largest professional fight crowd in Chicago since the Dempsy-Tunney bout in 1927.
