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Joe Louis Barrow was born may 13th 1914 in Lafayette Alabama; however in 1926 Joe’s family were shaken by the Ku Klux Klan and moved to Detroit where they moved into Detroit’s Black bottom neighbourhood. Joe Louis began his amateur career around 1932, the date is unsure as he used to box secretly so his mother wouldn’t find out. He began his amateur career with a loss to future Olympian Johnny Miller, however after this he won a number of fights and won the club championship of Brewster street recreation centre. In 1933 Louis won the Detroit-area golden Gloves novice division championship in the light heavyweight division. By the end of his amateur career Joe Louis’ record was 50 wins 4 losses with 43 knock outs. Many professional promoters were interested in signing Joe after his impressive amateur career; however he chose to be represented by black Detroit bookmaker John Roxborough after being convinced that the white managers wouldn’t be interested in seeing a black boxer succeed. Joe Louis won his first professional fight against Jack Kracken on July 4th 1934; he earned $59 after knocking him out in the first round. In his first year he won all 12 fights in which 10 by KO. Despite fighting heavyweight contenders Joe Louis never had a path to have a chance in becoming a contender. After Jack Johnson’s unpopularity with the white Americans, people were concerned with Joe Louis following in Jack Johnsons footsteps. In 1935 Joe Louis changed management and in order to win popularity with the white Americans he followed these rules: As a result of Joe following these simple rules bigger fights began to occur as Joe became more popular with the White American public. In 1935 Joe Louis had won the “Athlete of the year” and now had a proposed title fight with Max Schmeling arranged for June 1936.
 * Joe Louis**
 * 1) Never have a picture taken with a white woman
 * 2) Never gloat over a downed opponent
 * 3) Never engage in fixed flights
 * 4) Live and fight clean

Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was born in September 28th 1905 in Nazi Germany. He began boxing in amateur competition and in 1924 he had won Germany’s national amateur title in the light heavyweights division. Schmeling turned professional shortly afterwards, on August 24th 1926 Schmeling picked up the German light heavyweight championship after knocking out Max Diekmann in the first round. In the following year Schmeling won the European title with another fist round knockout of Michele Bonaglia. He then decided to go to America for bigger fights and bigger purses. Schmeling arrived in America in 1928 he was seen as a German who retained a record by fighting German and European unknowns. Schmeling won his first fight against a promising young boxer Joe Monte with an 8th round KO. After winning two more fights Schmeling had his opportunity to fight Johnny Risko who at the time was the best boxer in his weight division. In the 9th round the referee halted the fight after Schmeling had floored Risko 4 times. The crowed were shocked but delighted with a hard fought fight which was named the ‘Fight of the year’ by The Ring magazine. On June 12th 1930 Schmeling had famously become the ‘Low Blow Champion’ after a title fight with Jack Sharkey was halted after Sharkey dealt a low blow on Schmeling thus being disqualified. Schmeling became popular with the Americans as he was the first European born boxer to become light heavyweight champion.
 * Max Schmeling**