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Entries tagged with "Jack+Johnson":

  • Indiana Jones and the California Grizzly – October 7th, 2019

    Indiana Jones and the California Grizzly The country’s most famous evangelist whooped, “If he hits the devil like he used to hit his opponents, Satan will be sorry Jeffries ever left the ring…”

  • Jack Johnson vs. Arthur Cravan: Who’s your Dada? – September 24th, 2019

    Jack Johnson vs. Arthur Cravan: Who’s your Dada? Cravan’s proximity to Johnson, his theatricality, no less than his size and bogus title, made him a natural to fight the former champ…

  • Jack Johnson Park in Galveston – August 6th, 2019

    Jack Johnson Park in Galveston Jack Johnson Park is a quaint and peaceful homage to the first non-white man to hold the heavyweight championship of the world…

  • When Jack Johnson Came to Town – July 24th, 2019

    When Jack Johnson Came to Town Johnson first arrived in Philadelphia in 1903 to begin his campaign to gather enough Eastern publicity to force heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries into a match…

  • Mike Tyson: Turn on, tune in, drop by – July 4th, 2019

    Mike Tyson: Turn on, tune in, drop by The GQ piece is a ponderous read, Tyson’s resort is old news, but it explores his use of psychedelic drugs in some depth…

  • Boxing at the Forefront of Racial Fair Play – June 28th, 2019

    Boxing at the Forefront of Racial Fair Play When people criticize boxing, let’s tell them some of the positives that the other "more elitist" sports shamefully can't claim…

  • Boxing’s inconsequential Rickard – April 19th, 2019

    Boxing’s inconsequential Rickard In the matchless words of referee George Siler, Rickard was “a heavyweight that did not know as much about the game as a hog knows about Sunday…”

  • The House That Jack Built Burns – April 7th, 2019

    The House That Jack Built Burns “We found a very progressed fire, which is kind of unusual for the middle of the day in the middle of town...”

  • Won’t Get Fooled Again? – March 16th, 2019

    Won’t Get Fooled Again? The final words of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” may end up encapsulating tonight’s fight and all that preceded it…

  • Bill Dover’s lucky day – March 1st, 2019

    Bill Dover’s lucky day On February 25, his last day in town, Jack Johnson went, for reasons unknown, to the county jail building…

  • Locked and Loaded: Spence/Garcia – February 20th, 2019

    Locked and Loaded: Spence/Garcia “I want to be recognized as one of the best of this generation. How can I achieve that if I don't take these risks?”

  • Kings of The Ring—History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990 – February 15th, 2019

    Kings of The Ring—History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990

  • Joe Louis—America’s Hero Betrayed – February 14th, 2019

    Joe Louis—America’s Hero Betrayed The story of Joe Louis is a quintessential American story. Sandwiched between the controversial Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali, Louis was one of the greatest yet least controversial heavyweights of all time. This superb documentary traces the career of Joe Louis within the context of American racial consciousness.…

  • Braddock Statue Unveiled – September 27th, 2018

    Braddock Statue Unveiled Known as the “Bulldog of Bergen,” Braddock defeated Max Baer in 1935 and was rechristened the “Cinderella Man” …

  • Is Boxing Committing Suicide? – August 11th, 2018

    Is Boxing Committing Suicide? Boxing is the easiest sport to manipulate. Attempting to fix a baseball game requires the participation of many people. Not so with boxing…

  • How I Learned to Love Jack Johnson – May 31st, 2018

    How I Learned to Love Jack Johnson The timing of the launch, coming as it does hot on the heels of a posthumous presidential pardon, smacks of opportunism...

  • Trump Unexpectedly Does What's Right, Pardons Jack Johnson – May 24th, 2018

    Trump Unexpectedly Does What's Right, Pardons Jack Johnson Johnson had become a hated figure in a race-conscious early 20th century white America for his brash, outspoken ways and unapologetically lavish lifestyle…

  • President Trump Pardons Jack Johnson – May 24th, 2018

    President Trump Pardons Jack Johnson It took no less a man than Donald Trump to bring this strange and bitter low-hanging fruit to fruition…

  • Should Trump Pardon Jack Johnson? – April 23rd, 2018

    Should Trump Pardon Jack Johnson? Sacrosanct on one hand and counterfeit on the other, symbols both refine and diminish the genuine for a simulation…

  • You Can Call Me Ray – February 18th, 2018

    You Can Call Me Ray All he could hope for in order to keep himself and his family in his adopted hometown was quite the simple assignment. Just win…

  • Ranking the best boxing US states – January 27th, 2018

    Ranking the best boxing US states Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the standout boxers from a state which includes Stanley Ketchel, Kid Lavigne, Ad Wolgast and James Toney…

  • Gus Christie’s last fight – December 14th, 2017

    Gus Christie’s last fight Several generations of Milwaukee youngsters learned to box from him, among them Spencer Tracy, later one of the greatest actors in movie history...

  • Local hero – November 25th, 2017

    Local hero Dempsey wasn’t taking any risks on the exhibition tour he’d kicked off. His opponents were strong, willing but limited bruisers like Pat McLaughlin…

  • Rocky Marciano: A Crown of Gold – November 3rd, 2017

    Rocky Marciano: A Crown of Gold Rocky Marciano last fought on September 21, 1955, his sixth title defense, knocking out Archie Moore, "The most unappreciated fighter in the world…”

  • When The Cub Meets The Lion – October 17th, 2017

    When The Cub Meets The Lion Experience is to one’s vocation what seasoning is to a dish. Like wine, there’s just a bolder taste that only time can conjure…

  • Boxing Hall of Shame Honors Luis Ortiz – September 29th, 2017

    Boxing Hall of Shame Honors Luis Ortiz Deontay Wilder may be a “clean champion,” but the jury is still out on his greatness; drug cheat Ortiz was supposed to put that to the test…

  • My Most Vivid Memory of Gleason's at 83 Front Street in Brooklyn (Part 3 of 4) – September 9th, 2017

    My Most Vivid Memory of Gleason's at 83 Front Street in Brooklyn (Part 3 of 4) Gleason’s Gym is a mystical environment, pulsing with passion, where a fighter can punch himself out of his own personal darkness…

  • An Orgy for the Old and Outraged – July 17th, 2017

    An Orgy for the Old and Outraged Boxing has become the old man on the block, standing in his pajamas on his front porch, shaking his fist at those noisy kids next door…

  • The Long Count in Color – June 29th, 2017

    The Long Count in Color If vintage fight films were to be colorized, how they might provide a fresh look at the styles and skills of the great champions of the past…

  • Ward vs. Kovalev II—Moving on to Monday – June 20th, 2017

    Ward vs. Kovalev II—Moving on to Monday Visa may boast that its credit card gets you "everywhere you want to be," but the race card needs to stay in one's wallet…

  • Ward Krushes Kovalev – June 17th, 2017

    Ward Krushes Kovalev While sitting ringside watching Andre Ward in a rematch with Sergey Kovalev, the Johnson-Burns fight came to mind…

  • Oscar: Don’t Stop Believing – May 25th, 2017

    Oscar: Don’t Stop Believing The death knell continues to ring like clockwork. All that seems to change are the dramatis personae and century…

  • The Bearcat Wrights: Like Father, Like Son – March 23rd, 2017

    The Bearcat Wrights: Like Father, Like Son Senior must have been pleased that his son's last bout — which took place on May 13, 1974, at the Charlotte Coliseum — was at least some sort of boxing match…

  • Tell Tchaikovsky the News – March 19th, 2017

    Tell Tchaikovsky the News Chuck took up boxing while in prison and fought under the ring moniker Wild Man Berry, so he knew how to use his fists…

  • Mickey Riley: “The Joe Grim of the West” – March 16th, 2017

    Mickey Riley: “The Joe Grim of the West” Battling Nelson fought Riley fought four times. “That’s one fellow I never could lick,” lamented Nelson in his autobiography…

  • Boxing Is Alive & Well – December 1st, 2016

    Boxing Is Alive & Well Boxing is here to stay. Much like any other sport, it has its stumbles, but the sport itself is too strong to wither away and die…

  • Desperately Seeking Oscar – August 21st, 2016

    Desperately Seeking Oscar Boxers have an aura of nobility and menace that titillated my soul. I’ve seen presidents, media moguls, and Hollywood stars, kowtow to champion fighters…

  • May 27, 1960: When Vegas Became King – May 27th, 2016

    May 27, 1960: When Vegas Became King Around the time the Tropicana and the Dunes were headlining "Jayne Mansfield and a few sequins"— boxing in Nevada has been all Las Vegas…

  • Boxing by the Book: “In the Ring with Jack Johnson, Part II: The Reign” – May 23rd, 2016

    Boxing by the Book: “In the Ring with Jack Johnson, Part II: The Reign” Adam Pollack doubles down on the compound historical microscope that made the first book so remarkable…

  • Mr. Bombo’s bombastic year – April 11th, 2016

    Mr. Bombo’s bombastic year Gertrude instructed Bombo to blow his nose for the assembled press. Globs of Vaseline laced with black pepper came out…

  • What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate – February 19th, 2016

    What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate Between rounds Siki’s manager berated him for taking the fight to Carpentier, “What are you doing?” “He hit me!” was Siki’s answer…

  • Why Jack Johnson is Not as Great as You Were Told! – January 12th, 2016

    Why Jack Johnson is Not as Great as You Were Told! Jack Johnson—if he were teleported from his championship days to a modern ring—would not do well against many of the more contemporary greats...

  • Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa – December 24th, 2015

    Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa “The people are intrigued by his mammoth proportions and they flock to gaze at his huge shoulders, his mastadonic feet, his huge hands…”

  • Dempsey’s Arm and the State of Modern Boxing – December 23rd, 2015

    Dempsey’s Arm and the State of Modern Boxing I am still reeling from the experience of watching that awful exhibition (I cannot call it a fight) between Klitschko and Fury…

  • Klitschko / Fury: Skill and Power vs. Zig-Zags and The Almighty – November 23rd, 2015

    Klitschko / Fury: Skill and Power vs. Zig-Zags and The Almighty Klitschko is a fine architect, calmly deconstructing faces, subtly carving through the resolve of the man opposite…

  • The Great Race – November 10th, 2015

    The Great Race I’m not big on “aura” and “charisma.” I’m also not sure what “risks” and “chances” Mayweather believes he took…

  • Philadelphia Jack: Quaker, Faker and Maestro – October 22nd, 2015

    Philadelphia Jack: Quaker, Faker and Maestro Arch faker or misunderstood genius? In Jack’s case, the answer would appear to be a tantalizing and befuddling combination of both!

  • Tales of Langford and McVea – September 30th, 2015

    Tales of Langford and McVea Despite a controversial verdict the fight itself was proclaimed by most as one of the best fights staged in the history of Australian prize rings...

  • When Ad and Packey almost got it on – September 19th, 2015

    When Ad and Packey almost got it on Acting Gov. Morris, Sheriff Arnold and District Attorney Zabel received hosannas from church groups for their zealous protection of public sensibilities…

  • Animosity: Papa Jack, Corbett and Louis – August 17th, 2015

    Animosity: Papa Jack, Corbett and Louis While Jack smiled at the taunts and whipped back quick and sarcastic replies, the animated Corbett steamed and fidgeted...

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