 and Joe Louis, not knowing the government was going to come after him for the money that he had actually donated his time to make and help out our troops, Joe Louis was destitute later in life, had a heroin problem, and had to fight on into his 50s because the IRS wanted their money. That's just how white folks will do you. Well, anyway, Rocky Marciano, who fancied Joe Louis a boyhood hero, got in the ring and was, as legend has it, like crying as he had to beat the guy up and put him down because he knew he wasn't fighting the real guy.