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Product Code: ESPNDVD008
Joe Louis re-wrote the record books in an astonishing 12 years at the top of the heavyweight division. After knocking out James J Braddock in 1937, Louis made an amazing 25 defences of his championship - and but for the time lost during America's involvement in world war two, it might have been many more. Follow his story with us here from his roots in the cotton fields of Alabama, to the city streets of Detroit and on to a boxing career that took the sport - in fact, all sport - into a new era. In beating Braddock, Louis became the first black heavyweight champion since Jack Johnson's controversial reign ended in 1915. Johnson, one of the pioneers of the sport, is featured heavily in Legendary Cahmpions, which traces boxing with gloves back to its roots in the 19th century. As one of the first sports successfully filmed by movie cameras, boxing can boast incredible archive footage of its great early champions James J Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James J Jeffries, Tommy Burns, Johnson, Jess Willard and the Manassa Mauler himself, Jack Dempsey.
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