The date was July 4, 1910, the location was Reno, Nevada, and the event scheduled to take place was billed as the “Fight of the Century.” Roughly 20,000 people packed into a newly built, massive ...

Ring Magazine’s founder, Nat Fleischer, called Jack Johnson, 53-11-8 (33), of Raleigh, NC, the best heavyweight champion he ...

They called him the “Galveston Giant,” boxing’s first Black world heavyweight champion, but in his own hometown Jack Johnson’s profile is curiously, even shockingly, low for a man of his cultural ...