Booker T's name may be synonymous with the WCW World Championship, but for a long time, he believed his skin color made ...

He trained and got his black belt under Leandro Lo ... This is Ferrera's first and only IBJJF World Championship title. IBJJF Middle Heavyweight Champion In 2002 and 2004: Mirela Cortez Cortez is a ...

After the first African American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson lost to Willard in 1915, no black boxer fought for the title until 1937, because Joe Louis, who had just lost to Max Schmeling ...

America's first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on Bezos rocket VAN HORN, Texas -- America's first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on ...

In November of last year Jessica Troy made history by capturing the PWA World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Ricky South ...

Jack Johnson, right, won the heavyweight lineal championship by defeating Tommy Burns at Sydney Stadium in Australia in December 1908. Philipp Kester/ullstein bild via Getty Images With that landmark ...

Joe Louis (June 1937 to March 1949, 26 defences) After the first African American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson lost to Willard in 1915, no black boxer fought for the title until 1937 ...

Victory for either Oleksandr Usyk or Tyson Fury on Saturday will create the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in 24 years. The ever-bubbling alphabet soup of boxing sanctioning ...