The fight the world wanted to see was Farr against The Brown Bomber, Joe Louis.
The careers of Benny Leonard, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong and most of all, Sugar Ray Robinson, attest that defeats don't always debunk.
Here, the walls are studded with signed photos of Penthouse guests including Sinatra, American boxer Joe Louis and Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.
In 1954, 24 boxers became the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame, including Henry Armstrong, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and John L. Sullivan.
The sordidness of the sport is undeniable yet somehow nobility occasionally breaks through, as it did in the savage beating Braddock suffered when he lost his title to Joe Louis.
Floyd Mayweather Jr is another fighter to have retired undefeated but legends like Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard all suffered blots on their copy book.
But should the warrior from south Wales beat Jones in his 46th professional fight, Calzaghe would achieve a feat that even Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis failed to accomplish.
Ilitch wants a new arena for his Red Wings, who currently play at Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit and he might be able to finagle a deal with city officials to help finance a new arena if he moves the Pistons downtown as well.
She is a journalist, not a professional historian, and her lack of thoroughness sometimes shows she thinks, for instance, that Alf Landon, not Herbert Hoover, ran against Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, and more than halves the time that Joe Louis took to defeat Max Schmeling in 1938.
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Shaw, 36, replaces Louis Deacon in the second row while fellow Wasp Joe Worsley is named on the blind-side flank in place of Tom Croft.
Louis outfielder is a superstar still paid like an average Joe.
Wasps' Joe Worsley replaces Lewis Moody at open-side flanker, while Leicester lock Louis Deacon comes in for the injured Simon Shaw.
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Joe Biden of Delaware and Republican Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska faced off in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the single vice presidential debate October 2.
In his 267-page report, Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who led the review, blamed Spanier, former head coach Joe Paterno, and ex-administrators Gary Schultz and Tim Curley for having "never demonstrated ... any concern for the safety and well-being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest, " while the board of trustees failed to perform their oversight duties.
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