Editing Billy Conn (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:BillyConnBlvdPgh.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Billy Conn Boulevard in Pittsburgh, PA]]

* A portion of North Craig Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh is named Billy Conn Boulevard.
* Billy Conn is mentioned in the classic movie ''[[On the Waterfront]]''. In the famous scene in the back of the cab—"I could have been a contender." [[Rod Steiger]] (playing [[Marlon Brando]]'s brother) reflects on Brando's character Terry's early promise as a boxer with the words "You could have been another Billy Conn."
* Billy Conn is also mentioned in the 1966 [[Jack Lemmon]] and [[Walter Matthau]] classic comedy movie ''[[The Fortune Cookie]]''. In the apartment scene where Lemmon asks Boom Boom ([[Ron Rich]]) "Where'd you learn that? Don't tell me, your father was a Pullman porter", for which Boom Boom replies "He was a fighter, light heavyweight. Once went rounds with Billy Conn."
* Conn played a character named Billy Conn in the 1941 film [[The Pittsburgh Kid]], although it was not a biography.