it was joe Johnson punks not jack Johnson im sick of lookin up joe Johnson and gettin jack Johnson u heard me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion from 1908-1915.
The first colored boxer was Joe Gans, Joseph Gant also known as"the old master" he fought from 1881-1909 as the first lightweight black boxer ever.
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∙ 12y agoJohn Arthur Johnson (Glaveston Giant)
The first African American World Boxing Champion.
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∙ 14y agoPerhaps the most famous black boxer was Muhammad Ali, who won the heavyweight championship three times, more than any other boxer. He is retired now.
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∙ 13y agoTheodore "Tiger" Flowers became the first Black middleweight boxing CHAMPION by defeating Harry Greb in New York.
As for just the first Black middleweight BOXER, I don't know, sorry.
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∙ 13y agoJoe Gans, 1902
Joe Gans
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∙ 14y agoWas it Bruno.
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∙ 11y agojoe louis
Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson was the first black heavy weight boxing champion crowned in1912
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In the boxing context Tommy Burns was a world heavyweight champion who was the first white boxer to agree to fight a black boxer for the world title. On Boxing Day 1908 he lost his title to Jack Johnson who became the first ever black heavyweight champion of the world. Johnson was not the first black champion as many books say. tHAT HONOUR GOES TO First Black man to win a world boxing title; held three world boxing titles: paperweight, bantamweight and featherweight; invented shadow boxing and the suspended punching bag; fought in the world's longest fight.
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Jack Johnson. Not the singer, the black heavyweight champion of the world. Dates back to the roaring 20's I believe.