Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson got into a scrap

Joe Louis was being a bully to welterweights

 

This is why you drink Pepsi.

 

So tell me when they got outside the Nurse hit joe on the chin, knocked him out with one punch, left him there on the sidewalk unconscious, and drove her own car home. Sugar Ray came out later, saw the out cold Joe Louis there, hit his left knee with the cane, and then hobbled home. Joe knew why his chin hurt afterwards, but he never did find out why his left knee hurt worse than his chin. And Joe Louis never drank another Coca-Cola as long as he lived. Whenever he tried, he would get this weird pain in his left knee...

 

I love these kinda “Louis was actually kind of a jerk” stories “Saving it for me” is some petty big brother stuff I’ve done LOL - Tyson once called Louis out for what he was in private “an arrogant coke head” (pun not intended)…I don’t think he was Dr Evil or nothing and Robinson wouldn’t even imply as much (Ray was closer to that, that reptilian SOB) Louis was quite seemingly passive with the armies low rank treatment of blacks, Joe would note the racists privately and talk to his higher connections in the military to sort it out… where as Robinson would lash out and just challenge everybody to fight much to Louis’s discomfort. I remember “Big Red” bullying the guy who was playing him in a film on TV “I hope he can act better then he can fight” said actor had been a decent pro and according to the poster who saw it happen on the TV the guy was quite hurt by it - Louis was old at the time, souring and his ending, the final mile to the finish line his “golden years” were rough and he’s lucky Marciano, Sinatra, Schemling and Liston etc were looking out for him he was hustled bad by boxing, by golfers and the taxman, even life he was dealt a rough hand.

 

Notwithstanding the possibility of some embellishments, great story.

Though I will vouch that when it comes down to the last bottle/can of coke, things have def. gotten somewhat edgy in my own household.

I think when it came to women, Louis, The Pink Bomber, also said: “They can run but they can’t hide”.

 

Joe’s own calendar girls. Maybe Joe also lived up to being the “Brown Bomber” from time to time. Who knows? Not my business and that’s as much as I’m willing to say about it.

 

For a Coke, I'll fight! I love Coke (-a Cola!)

 

None of my business either, but I suspect Louis, who was a keen golfer, was partial to playing the back 9, from time to time.

 

… back to boxing trivia… Robinson had an odd fascination with midgets so his entourage said he had a part time driver named Chico who carried around a pistol and in France he had a translator / errand boy who was also a “little person” pretty odd ball behaviour reminds me of how Eubank Snr tried to employ a homeless man as a butler.

 

He also told a story about how a couple of Military Police picked a fight with Joe Louis not knowing who he was, to their general disadvantage.

 

Louis is a big guy but he does look awful unimposing as far as the smashed bucket of crabs look I’m used to seeing in boxers… baby faced guy and has an accountant look to him I’d expect in a Patterson, actually Patterson would be someone I’d expect to hear stories about destroying regularly people in self defence.