Buddy Baer Down from a Joe Louis Blow

Original caption: New York, New York: Louis Wins In First Over Baer. Joe Louis battered Buddy Baer to the canvas only 2 minutes and 56 seconds after the fight, for Navy relief in the Madison Square garden, Jan. 9, began. Photo shows Baer as he landed on his back on the canvas after a flock of right uppercuts by Louis (Left) had landed him there in final knockout. Referee Frankie Fullam is at right. January 9, 1942 Manhattan, New York, New York, USA