Jess Willard bested Jack Johnson in the sweltering Havana heat. Or did he? Johnson's pride has likely skewed the historical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the eve of what would have been Jack Johnson’s 147th birthday, people on Sunday gathered at the Nia Cultural Center in Galveston to celebrate.

“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 ...