Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson
HIS NAME WAS FIREMAN JIM FLYNN FROM ENGLAND.THE FIRST HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMP.
Jack Johnson, in 1908,
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Jack Johnson
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it is between light-heavy weight and heavy weight (between 176-200lbs)
Since the glove era, John L. Sullivan was the 1st. He was also the last bareknuckle Heavyweight Champion as well.
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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