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Jun 2, 2021 · The 1936 Match: 12 Rounds, Then a Knock-Out. Max Schmeling vs. Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium, June 19, 1936. But Schmeling had studied Louis and had noticed flaws in the American’s technique ...
Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914, in Lafayette, Alabama, the seventh of eight children in a sharecropping family. Facing threats from the Ku Klux Klan, Louis and his kin joined the Great Migration to the North in 1926, eventually settling in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood.
Joe Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914. His father, “Mun Barrow,” was a cotton picker from Alabama and his family fought with poverty for most of his childhood. His family moved to Detroit in 1924, at which point Joe first became involved in boxing. Having grown up in the Old South, Louis had acquired the instinct and anger of a true ...
Aug 3, 2021 · Joe Louis is not only fighting for the honor of the country, he is quite literally holding the hopes of all of Black America in his fists. For Max Schmeling, the fight will be a demonstration of ...
Joe Louis (born Joseph Louis Barrow, May 13, 1914 - April 12, 1981) was an American boxer. He was the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949. Louis won the title from James Braddock. He made a record twenty-five title defenses before giving up the title in 1949.
