On this day: Born May 13, 1914: Joe Louis, American boxer

FILE PHOTO: The boxing gloves that heavyweight champion Joe Louis used in his first fight against Germany's Max Schmeling in 1936 are shown at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, January 31, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Boxing fans and historians will always argue over the greatest heavyweight of them all but even Muhammad Ali was willing to admit he might have met his match in Joseph Louis Barrow.

"I don't know if I could have beat him, he really don't know if he could have beat me," Ali told wrestling writer Bill Apter in 1976.