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 had won the ... While in Paris, Johnson continued to enjoy night life and high life, but he did very little in the way of boxing. Between his 1910 defeat of Jeffries and his 1915 ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... his being banned from boxing in Kansas. If Johnson lived in the fast ...

Jack Johnson was known for his patient boxing style—allowing his opponents to tire themselves out, then punishing them brutally once they’d run out of gas. With his uncanny timing and ...

“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 ...