Jack Johnson
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∙ 12y agoJack Johnson was the first black heavy weight boxing champion crowned in1912
John Arthur Johnson (Glaveston Giant) The first African American World Boxing Champion.
Jack Jonhson became the first African American boxing champion in 1908
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Tim Hyer was the first recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion in 1841.
Theodore "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.
jack Johnson, aka the Galveston giant was heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=001187&cat=boxer
The first black heavyweight boxer who became world champion, is Jack Johnson.
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.