Editing Billy Conn (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Billy and Mary Louise Conn.jpg|thumb|upright|Conn and his wife Mary Louise, 1941]]
Billy married Mary Louise Smith, also from Pittsburgh.<ref name=FrankDeford1>{{cite web|last=Deford|first=Frank|date=June 17, 1985|title=The Boxer And The Blonde: Billy Conn won the girl but lost the fight|url=https://www.si.com/boxing/2015/02/13/si-60-billy-conn-joe-louis-boxer-blonde|access-date=March 31, 2016|website=SI.com}}</ref> Billy did not get along with Mary's father, former major league baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, [[Jimmy Smith (baseball, born 1895)|Jimmy "Greenfield Jimmie" Smith]]. A fight broke out between them and Conn punched his father-in-law in the head and broke his hand, resulting in postponing the fight with Joe Louis.{{which|date=June 2022}} Frank Deford wrote colorfully about the kitchen brawl in his [[Sports Illustrated]] story "The Boxer and the Blonde".<ref name=FrankDeford2>{{cite web|title=This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he - 06.17.85 - SI Vault|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119578/1/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730041535/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119578/1/index.htm|archive-date=July 30, 2010|access-date=August 2, 2011}}</ref>