Did Joe Louis and Muhammad treat you fairly?

The opinion of this writer about the two biggest champions in the heavyweight was Joe ‘Brown Bomber’ Louis and Muhammad ‘The Greatest’ Ali.

For everything they have contributed to boxing, each lost year of their boxing activities.

Starting with Louis, whose greatest achievement is in boxing of a record twenty -five defense of the title. His final record was 66-3 with 52 knockouts. Born in Lafayette in Alabama, like Joe Louis Barrow, will later fight Detroit in Michigan.

Louis was 54-4 as an amateur as a lightweight heavyweight category, winning the Chicago Championship and National Aau Championship tournament.

July 4, 1934. Louis turned into professional, winning the first 24 fights, 20 of which were knockout. Then he would be stopped by NBA World Champion Max Schmeling, 48-7-4, from Germany.

On June 2, 1937 at the Commiskey Park in Chicago, Il, Louis stopped the world champion James ‘The Pepenella Man’ J. Braddock, 50-25-7, had to get off the canvas in the first round to stop the champion in 8 rounds. He claimed he would never be considered a champion until he beat Schmeling.

In Louis’s fourth defense, he knocked out Schmeling, 52-7-4, at Yankee, Bronx, New York.

In June 1941, Louis had to come from two scales and even on the other side to stop the lightweight champion in Billy ‘Pittsburgh Kid’ Conna, 58-9-1, in 13 rounds on Polo Grounds, New York. He made three defenses, which led a total of 21 before entering the army.

January 8, 1942 Louis enrolled in the US army. He would be inactive for almost 3 years. On June 19, 1946, he had a rematch with Conno, reaching a knockout in the 8th round at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Louis fought 96 exhibitions for more than two million soldiers and raised $ 100,000 in help needs. His tax debt approached $ 500,000. In 1950, the IRS 1950 began to accumulate interest every year.

Louis had to get out of a pension to pay a tax debt. The IRS never considered the exhibitions he fought.

Watching the punishment of Muhammad Ali that he had not entered the US army.

In March 1969, the New York Commission for boxes abolished Ali’s license in September 1970. This was for condemning a crime, or for a military offense or for rejecting induction to the US army.

It cost the year of inactivity until he fought Oscar Bonaven’s Oscar after a New York Commission awarded a permit in 1970.

Is Ali treated fairly?