Chronological: Joe Louis
I was well known for the nickname “The Brown Bomber.” My friends nicknamed me that because I lost to Germany’s Max Schmeling. When I was a young boy, I suffered from a speech disorder and spoke very little until about the age of 6. I spent most of my early years growing up in the countryside of Alabama. My father, a sharecropper, was committed to a state mental hospital when I was two years old. My early life was shaped by financial struggles.
When I was a teenager, I was the best boxer of my group of five boxers. I won 50 of 54 amateur boxing matches, 43 by knockouts. I won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in 1934 and also was a Golden gloves titleholder. When I won that the next day I walked
I was well known for the nickname “The Brown Bomber.” My friends nicknamed me that because I lost to Germany’s Max Schmeling. When I was a young boy, I suffered from a speech disorder and spoke very little until about the age of 6. I spent most of my early years growing up in the countryside of Alabama. My father, a sharecropper, was committed to a state mental hospital when I was two years old. My early life was shaped by financial struggles.
When I was a teenager, I was the best boxer of my group of five boxers. I won 50 of 54 amateur boxing matches, 43 by knockouts. I won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in 1934 and also was a Golden gloves titleholder. When I won that the next day I walked