when was joe louis's monument built
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.