| 词汇 | joe louis |
| 词源 | Joe Louis. Joe Louis, perhaps the greatest of all heavyweight fighters, came to be nicknamed the Brown Bomber for his blockbusting right and the color of his skin. Joe Louis Barrow, born on May 13, 1914, in Lafayette, Alabama, was the son of a sharecropper who died when Joe was four. The family moved to Detroit where Joe helped support them when he was only 16 by taking odd jobs that included work as a sparring partner in a local gym. This led to a boxing career that finally saw him take the heavyweight title from Jim Braddock in 1937. He de- fended his title more often than any other champion in ring history, and only Jack Dempsey outpolled him in the Associat- ed Press survey of 1950 in which sportswriters picked the best boxers of the century. Louis lost three times in a career inter- rupted by service in World War II, once (before he became champion) to Max Schmeling, whom he knocked out in a re- match, and then to Rocky Marciano and Ezzard Charles, after he had retired as undefeated heavyweight champion but was attempting a comeback. His ring record included 64 KOs, eight decisions, and one win by default. A Joe Louis is synonymous for the utmost in a fighter, a heavyweight without peer. |
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