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have been many champions in the sport of boxing. Few of ...
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... Many fight fans believe that those years could have been his best. During the period
Ali was not boxing, Smokin' Joe Frazier stormed through the heavyweight ...
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Senior English
Ms. Ecke
3/27/08
“BOXING THROUGH THE YEARS”
Through the years there have been many champions in the sport of boxing. Many athletes have tried to make themselves legends of the sport and have failed, only to become stepping stones in another mans career. The few supreme athletes, who accomplished the impossible to become legends of the ring, have changed the world of boxing. Throughout the decades there have been a number of fighters who have revolutionized the sport of boxing by bringing their own styles and techniques into the ring.
One fighter who revolutionized the sport of boxing is Joe Louis. In 1938 undefeated boxing prodigy, Joe Louis AKA “the Brown Bomber” faced world heavyweight champion the Cinderella Man James J Braddock.( http://www.cmgww.com/sports/louis/bio.htm)The fight was action packed for 8 rounds. In the eighth round Louis knocked out Braddock to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
On June 22, 1938, Boxing Heavyweight champion Joe Louis took on German fighter Max Schmeling. (http://www.cmgww.com/sports/louis/bio.htm paragraph 5 line 1) Schmeling was the only opponent who had ever beaten Louis, up to this point. The fight was a rematch to a previous bout where Schmeling had knocked out the Brown Bomber in the 12th round, and Louis was not going to let this fight turn out like the last. The fight took place during a pre world war 2 time period; in which there was a great deal of tension between the US and Germany, so Louis was not only fighting for himself, but for his country.
The fight went on for only two minutes before the brown bomber landed two vicious left hooks on his opponent sending him down for the count. The result of the fight was that Joe Louis had won by way of knockout in the very 1st round. This was an enormous victory for Louis and for the United States.
In the sport of boxing champions are not born they are made. In...
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