Joe Louis Beats Freddie Beshore - HISTORY

Live coverage of boxing champ Joe Louis is captured in a broadcast from Olympia Stadium in Detroit on January 3, 1951. Mounting a comeback, Louis beats Freddie Beshore in the fourth round.

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