And just for those who might not know, you have to be real smart to be great boxer. The sweet science.
Roberto Duran...Alexis Arguello...Aaron Pryor. Anybody remember Gerry Cooney??...lol....
The US Army measured Muhammad Ali’s IQ at 78.
Even though I was only 5 when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling in 1938, in the following years it seemed almost as if I could actually remember listening to the fight...
Mainly because my parents, grandparents (and most Americans) listened to, and then talked incessantly about, that glorious fight for the next 20 years...
As kids, during WWII, you always wanted to be Joe Louis as you smacked one of your friends who you would call “Schmeling, the stinking nazi”...
Boxing & baseball were the kings in those days...