Joe Louis Biography essays

Joe Louis Biography essays I guess we should probably start out in Lafayette, Alabama on May 13, 1914 where I was born to the son of an Alabama sharecropper, great grandson of a slave, and the great great grandson of a white slave owner. When I was nine years old my family and I moved to Detroit in 1924. Detroit was where I first became interested in boxing. Having grown up in the old south, I had acquired the instinct and anger of a true fighter. I took on a strong liking to the sport and decided I was going to try boxing out. I trained non stop for the next ten years without any glamour or fame. I had a vision and I wasnt about to let it slip away. I won the Golden Gloves as a light heavyweight which would spark my professional career as a boxer. Within the first year of turning professional I won all twelve of my first bouts. As soon as I reached the pros I new it would be a steep climb up the heavyweight ladder. After I won more and more bouts my reputation as a boxer was growing, until finally I got my big chance. On June of 1935, I fought Primo Carnera, the former heavyweight champion, before a Yankee Stadium crowd of 62,00. I knocked him out in the fourth round. I have to say I was quite nervous going into the fight. After the fight was over I read a quote from Ernest Hemingway describing the fight as the most disgusting public spectacle outside of a public hanging that he had ever seen. I felt invincible the whole boxing world was on my side cheering me on. It almost seemed I couldnt be stopped. This feeling of greatness only lasted so long, until my meeting with Max Schmeling on June 19,1936. Max was the underdog but to the surprise of all including me he gave me a defeat that would continue to sting long after my cuts and bruises had healed. I was counted out in the 12th round of the fight and suffered the most painful defeat of my career. One year later I was back in the ring again t o face the wo...