Joe Louis on the first Schmeling fight. AP/ Wide World Photos Young Joe Louis was fighting in Golden Gloves tournaments in Detroit when he was introduced to John Roxborough. A former basketball ...
In so doing, Joe Louis called a halt to a heavyweight ... Schmeling had beaten up the young Louis a couple of years previously, but the Brown Bomber annihilated him in the rematch, stopping ...
That man was Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber." Joe Louis was born in 1914 to a humble family in Alabama. From a young age, he faced the adversities of a country marked by racism and inequality.