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 ...

Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912 ... and the outbreak of World War I the following year collapsed the European boxing market entirely. With money running out, the Johnsons sailed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johnson logged an assist and went minus-2 in Thursday's 7-3 loss to the Avalanche. Johnson was in the lineup over Damon Severson and Jake Christiansen for this contest after being a healthy ...

1915 — Jess Willard beats Jack Johnson in the 26th round to win the world heavyweight boxing title in Havana. 1927 — Johnny Weissmuller breaks his own 200-meter freestyle record by seven seconds in ...

The Las Vegas Raiders are looking to part ways with another starting cornerback in Jack Jones ... one of them is Will Johnson, a cornerback out of Michigan. Riddled with injuries during his ...