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...What about the next fight? To a gathering of reporters, Louis announced that there would be one more bout in June, but that was all. "I had enough. I been around a long time." Joe said he'd like to fight either Joe Walcott or Light-Heavyweight Gus Lesnevich. Nobody took the remark seriously: it was obviously part of the maneuvering to scale down Walcott's terms for a return match. At least there'd be an anguished outcry if Joe Louis fought anyone but Walcott. A reporter asked Louis: did he have enough money to retire...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...