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While in the army, he boxed 100 exhibition bouts. Louis died of a heart attack in Paradise, Nevada on April 12, 1981. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He has an arena named after him, the Joe Louis Arena where the Detroit Red Wings play.
The Monument to Joe Louis, known also as The Fist, is a memorial to the boxer at Detroit's Hart Plaza. History Dedicated on October 16, 1986, the sculpture, commissioned by Sports Illustrated magazine from the Mexican-American sculptor Robert Graham, is a 24-foot-long (7.3 m) arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) pyramidal framework.