JOE LOUIS  VS  LEE SAVOLD
June 15, 1951   *   New York City

   

A full unused ticket to the Joe Louis-Lee Savold heavyweight contest which would eventually take place on June 15, 1951 after a weather postponement of two days... Louis, who was suffering from financial problems and being pursued by the IRS, was on the comeback trail and would KO Savold in round 6... A clean ticket which will display nicely!!

measures: 2.5 x 7"
condition: excellent

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Joe Louis Stops Lee Savold in
Sixth Round of 'Battle of the Aged
 

  
      New York, June 15 (AP) The old Joe Louis dynamite exploded on ring-rusty Lee Savold in 2:29 of the sixth round Friday night for a sensational knockout win over the blood-smeared veteran recognized as world champion in Briton.
    Looking his best since he started up the long comeback trail toward a promised September date with champion Ezzard Charles, the 37-year-old Bomber received a terrific ovation as he strode from the ring.
    A power-laden left hook out of a flurry of punches dumped 35-year-old Savold on the deck for the only knockdown of the scrap. Lee struggled to get up and was just about to make it when referee Ruby Goldstein enfolded his bloody hulk in his arms.
    Spouting red like a fountain from a battered nose that probably was broken, Savold was cut down methodically by Louis who made good his prefight prediction to the exact round.
    "I think I'll knock him out in the sixth," he said at Pompton Lakes 10 days ago.
    He hit it right on the nose - Savold's nose that is.
    The old Louis left jab, always a ramrod that sent opponents' face bobbing like apples at a halloween party, was at its best. Seldom did he miss his mark, timeafter time he followed it with acrunching short right uppercut as part of a three punch combination that wound up with another hook.
    Only in the fifth when a long right hand lead nailed Louis on the jaw, did Savold damage the Bomber, Joe wavered as if it hurt but he shook it off and another right that followed.
    Trim and sharp at 211 1/4 to Savold's 190, Louis lived up to the 19 to 5 odds favoring him by winning all the way. The AP card gave Savold only one round, the fifth.
    This "battle of the aged" as it had been called by men as a gag turned out to be quite a show of Louis' determination to cap his comeback with another Charles fight.
    Joe is obsessed by a desire to become the first heavyweight champion ever to win back the title he held so many long years		  
 


The Times Picayune - Saturday, June 16, 1951