WALCOTT NAMED
JOE LOUIS’S LAST FIGHT DEFENCE OF TITLE NEW YORK, Dec. 31. Heavy-weight boxing champion Joe Louis said to-day that his fight in defence of the title next summer would be with Joe Walcott, who almost defeated him on December 5. not with Gus Lesnevich, who had been mentioned as a possible opponent. “ I wouldn’t want to fight anybody but Walcott, and it will be my last fight—win,, lose or draw,” said Louis.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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