So how good – or bad – of a heavyweight ... However, while Louis was a first-rate champion and his reign included a pair of defenses against both Billy Conn and Jersey Joe Walcott, it was ...
Joe Louis is the boxer who has been the undisputed heavyweight champion for the longest, sitting at the top of the sport for 12 years. Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, Buster Douglas, Liston ...
Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs) became boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight champion this century and ... Would Usyk beat Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis?
and is unique as the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated. It was a staggering 49-0 record, with 43 of his victories coming by knockout, including triumphs over Joe Louis ...
When Joe ‘The Brown Bomber won the world heavyweight title, stopping champ James Braddock in June of 1937, he said, “Until I ...
By beating Fury in May, “The Cat” had already joined the likes of Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Mike Tyson as undisputed heavyweight champion, and the first of the four-belt era. Defeat opens up ...
Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson - in the past the world heavyweight champion was also the most famous man in the world. Now, for the first time since Lennox Lewis in 1999, one man ...
He won the world heavyweight title in 1937, and kept it for a record 11 years ... there was special mention of the day’s celebrated guest: “Joe Louis in person, heavyweight champion of the world.
Boxing has been the stage for great stories, and among them, few are as unjustly forgotten as that of Larry Holmes. Despite ...