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Categories: Boxers from Michigan. Sportspeople from Detroit. American boxers by populated place.
The Top Ranked Boxers of All-Time from Michigan. Where a fighter grew up or went to school is not factored into this list.
The list "Boxers from Detroit" has been viewed 659 times. This list has 41 members. See also Sportspeople from Detroit, Michigan, Boxers from Michigan, American boxers by populated place. Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951.
It includes boxers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories such as American male boxers or American women boxers. This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:Sportspeople from Michigan .
In 1983 Steward's Detroit boxers won the Golden Gloves team title (the first since 1963) when Ricky Womack won the light heavyweight title, Frank Tate captured the junior middleweight crown, Roderick Moore the lightweight title, and Craig Payne the super heavyweight title.
Thomas Hearns, the most famous Detroit boxer this side of Joe Louis, fought from the 1970s to the 2000s, piling up six world titles and two continental titles in his impressive career.
As the world’s heavyweight boxing champion for a record 12 years from 1937 to 1949, Joe Louis is generally regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, a breaker of racial barriers, and national hero. Joseph Louis Barrow was born to sharecroppers near Lafayette, Alabama on May 13, 1914.