Joe Louis, the longest-reigning heavyweight champion in boxing, was born Joe Louis Barrow in a modest sharecropper’s home in Lafayette, Ala., in 1914. Many people think Louis was from Detroit, where ...
There certainly is a roll call of names like Rocky Marciano, then Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and now in the present Wladimir Klitschko, ...