Joe Louis KO 1 John Henry Lewis 1939 Youtube

Thanks, nice to have finally seen that fight, as short as it ws. Louis actually did his old friend a favor by dispatching him him so fast.

 

The story of this fight is an ill John Henry Lewis needed money, so Joe Louis gave him a payday.

 

Brutal body shots, those would have bent many other fighters in half.

 

John Henry will still a solid fighter, beat some great fighters. there was no one like Joe Louis at Heavyweight...thanks Suzie

 

A half-blind light heavyweight should not challenge Joe Louis. That's the moral of the story. Lewis did have some major guts though.

 

amen!

 

Care to greatly expand on this one?

 

And with Louis, a friend indeed can quickly become a friend in need. I hope Lewis did get paid well, because Louis was at his destructive best in this fight.

 

Lewis was blind in one eye and it was only a matter of time before he got his boxoing liscence withdrawn.

Louis decided to give him the biggest payday to be had in the sport before that happened.

 

John Henry was in poor health, and also had issues with his eye sight.

 

I don't know anything about an illness.

I do know that he was basicaly in the same position as Frank Bruno before the second Tyson fight. Ranked, but blind in one eye, and a liscence revocation waiting to happen.

That meant that it was all about the one big fight.