Jack Johnson had won the title six and a half years ... Born in Kansas in 1881, Willard did not take up boxing until he was 27. He did so because he had not had much of an education and he figured ...

As a boy, Jack Johnson was a part of the racially ... The shop owner, Walter Lewis, introduced Johnson to boxing. There was nothing more for me to do in Galveston. The purses offered me were ...

Despite the lack of prize money, Johnson's victory in the ring had impressed Jack Curley, the young assistant to boxing promoter P.J. "Paddy" Carroll. Curley and Carroll arranged for Johnson to ...

President Trump decided to suddenly announce he was considering a pardon for Jack Johnson, the history-making boxer. Trump, as you might imagine, appears to have taken a particular interest in ...

MORE: Hall of Fame Boxer Questions Gervonta 'Tank' Davis ... At number three was Jack Johnson. Johnson had a record of 53-11-8 with 33 knockouts. Johnson was the first ever black heavyweight ...

Maybe it’s a coincidence that the great American boxer Jack Johnson and the contemporary artist Rashid Johnson share a last name. Jack, the first Black world heavyweight champion who is considered one ...

Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ... against Brad Simmons led to his being banned from boxing in Kansas. If Johnson lived in the fast lane, he died there literally ...

“He was catching punches,” says boxing historian Bert Sugar. “Jack Johnson was perhaps the greatest defensive heavyweight of all time.” The Johnson-Jeffries fight was of such intense ...

Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ... against Brad Simmons led to his being banned from boxing in Kansas. If Johnson lived in the fast lane, he died there literally ...

Maybe it’s a coincidence that the great American boxer Jack Johnson and the contemporary artist Rashid Johnson share a last name. Jack, the first Black world heavyweight champion who is ...