| 100% | FRAZIER | 7 | Joe __, Smokin' US boxer |
| 49% | PATTERSON | 9 | US boxer Floyd, world heavyweight champ in 1950s |
| 49% | MIKETYSON | 9 | US boxer who bit his opponent's ear |
| 49% | LISTON | 6 | US boxer Sonny, world heavyweight champ in 1960s |
| 47% | PALOOKA | 7 | Cartoon boxer Joe |
| 47% | PALOOKA | 7 | Fictional boxer Joe |
| 45% | FRAZIER | 7 | Heavyweight boxing pro Smokin' Joe __ |
| 44% | PALOOKA | 7 | Ham Fisher's boxer, Joe ___ |
| 44% | ALI | 3 | "When We Were Kings" boxer |
| 44% | NAMATH | 6 | Joe who "guaranteed" the 1969 US Super Bowl |
| 44% | KENNEDY | 7 | Joe __, US ambassador to the UK 1938-1940 |
| 44% | BILLYCONN | 9 | Boxer who almost upset Joe Louis in 1941 |
| 42% | EYED | 4 | "Cotton-___ Joe" (traditional US folk song) |
| 40% | DIMAGGIO | 8 | Joe —, US baseball player married to Marilyn Monroe from 1954-55 |
| 40% | FARR | 4 | Boxer Tommy, loser to Joe Louis in a 1937 title bout |
| 40% | DELAWARE | 8 | State that Joe Biden represented as a US senator |
| 40% | ALI | 3 | First boxer in the US Olympics Hall of Fame |
| 37% | SPANO | 5 | Joe —, actor who played Henry Goldblume in US television series Hill Street Blues |
| 36% | STILWELL | 8 | Joseph —, US Army general known as Vinegar Joe who died in 1946 |
| 36% | TONY | 4 | & 12D Former professional boxer who played Tony Banta in US sitcom Taxi |
| 35% | SPANO | 5 | Joe —, actor whose roles have included Henry Goldblume in US television series Hill Street Blues |
| 35% | JACKBODELL | 10 | Boxer who took the European, Commonwealth and British Heavyweight titles from Joe Bugner in 1971 |
| 35% | KAMALA | 6 | "We did it, Joe" speaker |
| 34% | BUGNER | 6 | Joe —, boxer who took the British, European, and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles from Henry Cooper in 1971 |
| 33% | MANTEGNA | 8 | Joe ___, "Criminal Minds" actor who plays Lou in the 2022 TV series "As We See It" |
| 33% | FARR | 4 | Tommy —, Welsh boxer who fought Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight title in 1937 |
| 30% | HOT | 3 | Smokin' |
| 30% | FLAN | 4 | Smokin' |
| 30% | YOUANDME | 8 | Us |
| 30% | JAVA | 4 | Joe |