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'''JOE LOUIS'''
==Joe Louis Fights==
 
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'''Joseph Louis Barrow''' (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), known as '''Joe Louis''' and nicknamed "The Brown Bomber, was a highly successful professional [[boxer]]. During his career he defended his heavyweight championship a record 25 times.
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==Early Life==
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Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, [[Alabama]] into a poor, [[sharecropping]] family with 8 children.  When Joe was 2 his father, the son of a former [[slave]], was admitted to the Searcy Hospital for the Negro Insane.  After being told her husband had died, Louis' mother was remarried to another sharecropper named Patrick Brooks, who was a widower and also had 8 children.  Brooks became a strong father figure in Joe's life.
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In 1926, the family moved to [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], where his father and brothers worked on the [[assembly line]] at a [[Ford]] plant.  With the arrival of the [[Great Depression]] in the 1930's, his father and brothers lost their jobs and the family fell on hard times.  Louis started attending the Bronson Vocational School, where he was learning to make furniture. 
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Eventually, things began to settle down and at his mother's insistence, Louis began taking [[violin]] lessons.  The violin made him the object of ridicule for his vocational school classmates, except for [[Thurston McKinney]] who was a successful amateur boxer.  McKinney invited Louis to come with him to [[Brewster's East Side Gymnasium]].  Eventually, McKinney invited Louis to spar with him.  After being beaten around for a few rounds, Louis lost his temper and landed a right to McKinney's chin, nearly knocking him out.  Thurston grinned and said, "Man, throw that violin away."<ref>Louis, p. 20</ref>  From that point forward, Louis dedicated his life to becoming a boxer.
||July 4, 1934
==Boxing Career==
||[[Jack Kracken]]
====Amateur====
||[[Bacon's Arena]], [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]
Louis began to draw the attention of Brewster's owner [[Atler Ellis]], who with the help of [[Holman Williams]], began to train him.  His first amateur fight took place at the Naval Armory in Detroit, and was against a member of the 1932 [[Olympic]] boxing team, [[Johnny Miler]]. He was defeated in three rounds after being knocked down seven times.  Louis was disheartened by his performance and temporarily gave up his training to work a regular job at the Ford factory.  However, he would quit in January of 1933 to return to the gym because he "figured, if I'm going to hurt that much for twenty-five dollars a week, I might as well go back and try fighting again."<ref>Louis, p. 27 - At the time, amateur boxing could earn a boxer 25 dollars for a win and 7 dollars for a loss.</ref> 
||Win by knockout
 
||1
Louis' second amateur fight was against [[Otis Thomas]] at the Forest Athletic Club.  He knocked Thomas out in the first round.  Louis would go on to defeat the next thirteen opponents he faced.  His success led him to enter into the [[Golden Gloves]] and [[Amateur Athletic Union]] (AAU) tournaments.  Louis would end up winning 50 of his 54 amateur fights, with 43 [[knockout]]s.
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====Professional====
||July 12, 1934
In 1934, Louis moved to [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], where he would be trained by [[Julian Black]] and [[John Roxborough]] for his professional career.  His first professional fight was on July 4, 1934 at the Bacon Casino against Jack Kracken.  He knocked Kracken out with a left hook in under 2 minutes.  By the end of August, he was 5-0 with 4 knockouts.  He would continue his dominance over the next 22 fights, until his first meeting with [[Max Schmeling]].
||[[Willie Davies]]
 
||Bacon's Arena, Chicago, Illinois
 
||Win by knockout
====Military====
||3
==References==
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====Notes====
||July 4, 1934
<references/>
||[[Larry Udell]]
====Primary Sources====
||[[Marigold Gardens]], Chicago, Illinois
*Joe Louis, Art Rust Jr., and Edna Rust. ''Joe Louis: My Life'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978)
||Win by technical knockout
====Secondary Sources====
||2
*Jakoubek, Robert. ''Joe Louis'' (New York: Chelsea House, 1990)
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*Margolick, David. ''Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
||August 13, 1934
 
||[[Jack Kranz]]
==External Links==
||Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois
*[http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=009027&cat=boxer Joe Louis' Boxing Record]
||Win by decision, points
*[http://www.ibhof.com/jlouis.htm Joe Louis' International Boxing Hall of Fame Biography]
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*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/index.html Information on PBS documentary ''The Fight'']
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*[http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/louis/ The Official Website of Joe Louis]
||August 13, 1934
*[http://www.searchforvideo.com/sports/boxing/joe-louis/ Collection of Joe Louis Online videos]
||[[Jack Kranz]]
||Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois
||Win by decision, points
||8
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||August 27, 1934
||[[Buck Everett]]
||Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois
||Win by knockout
||2
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||September 11, 1934
||[[Al Delaney]]
||Naval Armory, [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]
||Win by technical knockout
||4
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||Septemeber 26, 1934
||[[Adolph Wiater]]
||[[Arcadia Gardens]], Chicago, Illinois
||Win by decision, points
||10
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||October 24, 1934
||[[Art Sykes]]
||Arcadia Gardens, Chicago, Illinois
||Win by knockout
||8
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||October 31, 1934
||[[Jack O'Dowd]]
||[[Arena Gardens]], Detroit, Michigan
||Win by knockout
||2
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||November 11, 1934
||[[Stanley Poreda]]
||Arcadia Gardens, Chicago, Illinois
||Win by knockout
||1
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||November 30, 1934
||[[Charlie Massera]]
||Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois
||Win by knockout
||3
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||December 14, 1934
||[[Lee Ramage]]
||[[Chicago Stadium]], Chicago, Illinois
||Win by technical knockout
||8
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||January 4, 1935
||[[Patsy Perroni]]
||[[Olympia Stadium]], Detroit, Michigan
||Win by decision, points
||10
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||January 11, 1935
||[[Hans Birkie]]
||[[Duquesne Gardens]], [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]]
||Win by technical knockout
||10
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||February 21, 1935
||Lee Ramage
||Wrigley Field, [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
||Win by technical knockout
||2
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||March 8, 1935
||[[Don Barry]]
||Dreamland Auditorium, [[San Francisco]], California
||Win by technical knockout
||3
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||March 29, 1935
||[[Natie Brown]]
||Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan
||Win by decision, unanimous
||10
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Revision as of 14:08, 8 August 2007

Joe Louis Fights

Date Opponent Location Decision Round
July 4, 1934 Jack Kracken Bacon's Arena, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 1
July 12, 1934 Willie Davies Bacon's Arena, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 3
July 4, 1934 Larry Udell Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by technical knockout 2
August 13, 1934 Jack Kranz Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by decision, points 8
August 13, 1934 Jack Kranz Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by decision, points 8
August 27, 1934 Buck Everett Marigold Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 2
September 11, 1934 Al Delaney Naval Armory, Detroit, Michigan Win by technical knockout 4
Septemeber 26, 1934 Adolph Wiater Arcadia Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by decision, points 10
October 24, 1934 Art Sykes Arcadia Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 8
October 31, 1934 Jack O'Dowd Arena Gardens, Detroit, Michigan Win by knockout 2
November 11, 1934 Stanley Poreda Arcadia Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 1
November 30, 1934 Charlie Massera Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois Win by knockout 3
December 14, 1934 Lee Ramage Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois Win by technical knockout 8
January 4, 1935 Patsy Perroni Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan Win by decision, points 10
January 11, 1935 Hans Birkie Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Win by technical knockout 10
February 21, 1935 Lee Ramage Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California Win by technical knockout 2
March 8, 1935 Don Barry Dreamland Auditorium, San Francisco, California Win by technical knockout 3
March 29, 1935 Natie Brown Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan Win by decision, unanimous 10
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