including the Joe Louis Restaurant, the Joe Louis Insurance Company, a softball team called the Brown Bombers, the Joe Louis Milk Company, Joe Louis pomade (hair...
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Joe Louis Arena was an arena in Downtown Detroit. Completed in 1979 at a cost of US$57 million as a replacement for Olympia Stadium, it sat adjacent to...
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Joe Louis Clark (May 8, 1938 – December 29, 2020) was the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also the subject of the 1989...
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The Monument to Joe Louis, known also as The Fist, is a memorial dedicated to boxer Joe Louis located at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Woodward...
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Joe Louis (1914–1981) was an American world heavyweight boxing champion. Joe Louis may also refer to: Joe Louis (puppeteer) (Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 1922–2007)...
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Louis Joseph Walker Jr. (born December 25, 1949), known as Joe Louis Walker, is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer...
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Max Schmeling (section Versus Joe Louis)
heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultural events because of their national...
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Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling (or Max Schmeling vs. Joe Louis) refers to either of two separate fights between the two boxers which are among boxing's most...
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Lean on Me (film) (redirect from Lean on Me: The Joe Louis Clark Story)
Michael Schiffer, and starring Morgan Freeman. It is based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey...
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The Joe Louis Story is a 1953 American film noir drama sport film directed by Robert Gordon and starring Coley Wallace, Hilda Simms and Paul Stewart....
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Hill (September 23, 1921 – August 5, 1957), known professionally as Joe Hill Louis, was an American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band...
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Billy Conn (section Joe Louis Era)
professional boxer and Light Heavyweight Champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses and 1 draw...
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Joe Louis was a horse owned by the United States Army. He was purchased by the Army in 1938 and named in honor of boxer Joe Louis. Joe Louis died at Fort...
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Tommy Farr (section World title fight vs Joe Louis)
against Joe Louis. Considered one of Louis' toughest ever fights, the bout lasted the full 15 rounds and the large crowd saw Farr hurt Louis on numerous...
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the rank of #1 heavyweight contender. On December 5, 1947, he fought Joe Louis, and at 33 years of age broke the record as the oldest man to fight for...
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dinner. Starting with the 1990s, the BWAA also began to give an award for "Joe Louis Fighter of the Decade." The winners of this award are listed in a separate...
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Joe Louis Greenway is a 39-mile (63 km) biking and walking trail through the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, Highland Park, and Dearborn. It connects 23...
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382 days as world heavyweight champion. Joe Louis has won the most world heavyweight title bouts, with 27. Louis holds the record for most consecutive title...
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Sakorn Yang-keawsot (redirect from Joe Louis Puppet Theatre)
(traditional Thai small puppets). Also known by his English nickname, Joe Louis, in 1965 he founded the Sakorn Hunlakornlek troupe with his daughter,...
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misconception exists that the Jos Louis was named after the popular American boxer Joe Louis born in 1914. The Jos Louis is also available in a 30-gram half-moon...
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Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic is a British documentary film presented by Louis Theroux. It was released on 5 April 2021 on BBC Two. The documentary...
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James J. Braddock vs. Joe Louis was a professional boxing match contested on June 22, 1937, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. The fight took...
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opponent he ever faced for the world heavyweight title, and shares, with Joe Louis, the highest knockout-to-win percentage in world heavyweight title fights...
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Bob Pastor (section First fight with Joe Louis)
heavyweight of the 1940s who once challenged for the world title, losing to Joe Louis in 1939. Pastor began his professional boxing career on January 26, 1935...
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Joe Louis in Chicago. Braddock argued he would have received only a US$25,000 purse against Schmeling, compared to $250,000 against rising star Louis...
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two boxing matches between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling. In 1936, African American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts), trained by Jack Blackburn...
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boxer. He is best remembered for scoring a third-round knockdown against Joe Louis in a world title stoppage loss in June 1939. Active from the late 1920s...
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portraying the boxer Joe Louis. Wallace died on January 30, 2005, of heart failure in New York City. The Joe Louis Story (1953) - Joe Louis Carib Gold (1957)...
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and his brother Buddy both lost fights to Joe Louis. In the third round of Max's September 1935 match, Louis knocked Baer down twice, the first time he...
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Red Burman (section Fight with Joe Louis)
divisions. During the 1940s, he was a top rated contender who challenged Joe Louis for the world Heavyweight title. Clarence Burman was born in Baltimore...
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