refused to fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the younger Jeffries for five rounds, Johnson knocked ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... not for the fact Johnson was the most dominant boxer of his time.

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 ...

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become ... many when Joe Louis emerged as the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed the envelope ...

Jack Johnson, right, won the heavyweight lineal championship ... Marciano, an icon of the 20th century, remains boxing's only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated. An undersized yet formidable ...

Toledo, 5 July 1919 - Jack Dempsey has become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world ... has held the world title since he defeated Jack Johnson in Havana in 1915, a contest that ran ...

Johnson beats Jeffries for world boxing title ... he can take the champion's measure. Omaha, Neb. - One negro killed and several injured. Dozens of arrests in race riots. Jack Johnson appeals ...

And while boxing in the U.S. isn’t as popular as it was when Jack Johnson was scoring knockouts in the 1910s or when Muhammad Ali was floating like a butterfly in the 1960s and 1970s ...

Jack stepped on the Florida State Boxing Commission’s scale at 177 pounds, the c... Chad Johnson, Brian Maxwell ... five-division world champion squares off in an exhibition bout against social ...

Bill Emes catches up with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch to discuss his recent win over Glen Johnson ... Their standing... Jack is a prospect fighting out of Las Vegas who had ...

A recent study found that most teenagers can't name a female athlete but Cracker Jill is looking to change the conversation.

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 ...