Jack Johnson, dubbed the “Galveston Giant,” was born on the island March 31, 1878, learned to fight on the docks and became ...

Donald Trump has praised the role Sylvester Stallone has played in a pardon being issued to one of the greatest boxers of all ...

American novelist Jack London wrote a newspaper column that summed ... the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed the envelope of expectations ...

refused to fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the younger Jeffries for five rounds, Johnson knocked ...