#OnThisDay 80 years ago:
King of the heavyweights, “The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis (54-1) finally met light heavyweight great Billy Conn (62-10-1) in a long anticipated rematch, five years in the making. Readily apparent early on that both fighters declined!
#boxing #history #otd

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Happy Birthday to former boxer, manager and trainer Brendan Ingle. He guided Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson, Junior Witter and Kell Brook to World Titles. Sadly he passed in 2018 at the age of 77. 🇮🇪🥊

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85 years ago, Joe Louis defeated Billy Conn by KO in round 13 of 15 to retain the world heavyweight title. Louis was behind on two judges scorecards.

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Chris Mannix said. Boots beating Zayas puts him in the Hall of Fame. You wonder why most of boxing media has very little credibility. One of the most pathetic takes I’ve ever heard. 🥊🥊🥊

Joe Louis proves that you never give a great puncher an opening, on June 18, 1941, as he puts challenger and light heavyweight titlist Billy Conn go to the canvas at the Polo Grounds in his 18th defense of the heavyweight title.

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✅️CONFIRMED. Jermall Charlo will face Koen Mazoudier as part of the Spence vs Tszyu undercard with Stephen Fulton returning to the ring against former title challenger Liam Wilson

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Pancho Villa and Jimmy Wilde, after the weigh-in and in the ring before their bout, on June 18, 1923, before Villa will become the first Filipino (And first Asian) to become a World Champion, at The Polo Grounds in New York, scoring a 7th round KO for the Flyweight Championship.

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World Featherweight Champion Alexis Arguello (L) and Sugar Ray Robinson, clown around after a Main St. Gym sparring session.
Photo dated: June 17, 1976.
(Photo from The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Photo Collection)

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Former WBC Light Heavyweight champion John Conteh (left) loses a split decision to then current WBC Light heavyweight Champion Mate Parlov, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on June 17, 1978.

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its the most unlikeable generation of boxers. They ask for more and give less with an unbreakable sense of entitlement. Not all of them, but too many. Thats the inconvenient truth

New Middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta, and his wife Vikki, receive congratulatory telegrams on June 17, 1949, a day after he'd taken the title from France's Marcel Cerdan.

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Paulino Uzcudun, aka The Basque Woodchopper, and fellow contender Johnny Risko, aka The Cleveland Rubber Man, weigh in for their 1927 duel at Madison Square Garden. Uzcudun was favored to win, but it was Risko who got the 10 round decision. #Heavyweight #History #Boxing

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Carlos Monzon (left) retains the undisputed middleweight Championship on September 29, 1973 with a 15-round unanimous decision over Jean Claude Bouttier at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France.

This was their second meeting as Monzon had previously retained his title with a

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World champ Muhammad Ali shakes his fist at European and Commonwealth champ Richard Dunn at a press conference for their 1976 duel in Munich, Germany. Ali decked Dunn five times to score a 5th round TKO, the last stoppage win of his career. #Heavyweight #History #Boxing

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One of the most underrated fights of the last 25 years.

Winky mistakenly took the 12th off. But if he gets the nod in that fight, he’d have been remembered as even greater than he currently is.

One of the best HBO World Championship Boxing fights of all time.

Happy Birthday to former Heavyweight World Champion Tommy Burns. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996. He passed away in 1955 at the age of 73. 🇨🇦🥊

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