The Greatest Light Heavyweights 👑 Billy Conn was another fighter whose 175lb run gets overlooked because of his defining moments against Joe Louis up st heavyweight At 175lb Conn had wins over Solly Krieger x2 Fred Apostoli x2 Melio Bettina x2 Gus Lesnevich x2 Tony Zale Where does Conn feature in your list of all time great light heavyweights? #Boxing #History #LightHeavyweight #BillyConn | BTR Boxing Podcast Network

166K views · 2.8K reactions | 84 years ago, Joe Louis defeated Billy Conn by KO in round 13 of 15 to retain the world heavyweight title. Louis was behind on two judges scorecards. #Boxing #History | BTR Boxing Podcast Network | Facebook

Light-heavyweight great Billy Conn, the fighter with movie star looks best remembered for his 1941 loss to world heavyweight champ Joe Louis, died #OnThisDay in 1993 in his native Pittsburgh. He was 75 years old. Conn romped the first 12 rounds, but inexplicably decided to trade punches with the explosive Louis in the 13th - and got stopped: “I lost my head and a million bucks,” Billy told the press. In 1990 Conn made the headlines again when he floored an armed robber in a store with a left hoo

#OnThisDay 1942: Billy Connolly was born in Glasgow. In 1984, he faced an audience of Scottish teenagers who had some tricky questions for him. | BBC Archive

2.6K views · 57 reactions | 壘On June 18, 1941 Billy Conn, the former...