The name Joe Louis is synonymous with the word boxing. Born Joe Louis Barrow on May 13, 1914 in Alabama, Joe Louis began his fight career at an early age. Following a sparkling amateur career Louis turned professional in 1934 and his impact on the heavyweight division was immediate. By the second year of his career Louis was already disposing of former champions Primo Carnera and Max Baer. His first loss was in 1936 to former champion Max Schmeling. The two fighters would meet again two years later in one of the most anticipated bouts in boxing history. Louis would avenge the earlier loss stopping Schmeling in the very first round. In 1937 Louis won the heavyweight title stopping Jimmy Braddock and he would hold that title for a record eleven years. Louis would amass victories over Jack Sharkey, Tony Galento, Billy Conn and Jersey Joe Walcott. A wonderful person outside the ring, Louis would donate purses from fights to the war effort while lending his name to promotional causes to support the war effort as well. Louis fought numerous exhibitions while in the army to raise troop morale. Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon summed Louis up this way, “Joe Louis is a credit to his race, the human race.” Presented here are a pair of fight worn trunks used by Joe Louis. The trunks are purple satin with purple trim and an Everlast manufacturer’s label at the center waistband. Included on the label is the additional logo, Made Expressly For Joe Louis. There is a notation on the label, the name Walcott. Craig Hamilton of JO Sports, Inc. researched the trunks and determined they are authentic fight trunks of Joe Louis. His LOA is included. The trunks were part of the collection of Stanley Weston, former owner of The Ring (Magazine) and were part of the Ring Museum collection. These trunks come with an LOA from Toby Weston Cone stating that the trunks were part of her father’s collection and before that of The Ring Museum of Nat Fleischer (founder of The Ring). The trunks are in excellent condition. Extremely rare offering.