Highlights of "the most beautiful fighting machine" that was Joe Louis, who on this day 24th Sep, 1935, annihilated Max Baer before a crowd of over 90,000 at Yankee Stadium. Baer's hands were repeatedly x-rayed in the weeks leading up to this fight. His hands were declared fit. They were fit before/after Braddock too. Louis' handlers asked that Baer and his team be watched closely by the commission for illegal stimulant use, after Baer admitted before a crowd of 300, and his trainer later confir