Entries tagged with "Jack+Johnson":
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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…”
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Cravan’s proximity to Johnson, his theatricality, no less than his size and bogus title, made him a natural to fight the former champ…
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Jack Johnson Park is a quaint and peaceful homage to the first non-white man to hold the heavyweight championship of the world…
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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…
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The GQ piece is a ponderous read, Tyson’s resort is old news, but it explores his use of psychedelic drugs in some depth…
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When people criticize boxing, let’s tell them some of the positives that the other "more elitist" sports shamefully can't claim…
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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…”
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“We found a very progressed fire, which is kind of unusual for the middle of the day in the middle of town...”
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The final words of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” may end up encapsulating tonight’s fight and all that preceded it…
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On February 25, his last day in town, Jack Johnson went, for reasons unknown, to the county jail building…
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“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?”
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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.…
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Known as the “Bulldog of Bergen,” Braddock defeated Max Baer in 1935 and was rechristened the “Cinderella Man” …
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Boxing is the easiest sport to manipulate. Attempting to fix a baseball game requires the participation of many people. Not so with boxing…
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The timing of the launch, coming as it does hot on the heels of a posthumous presidential pardon, smacks of opportunism...
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Johnson had become a hated figure in a race-conscious early 20th century white America for his brash, outspoken ways and unapologetically lavish lifestyle…
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It took no less a man than Donald Trump to bring this strange and bitter low-hanging fruit to fruition…
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Sacrosanct on one hand and counterfeit on the other, symbols both refine and diminish the genuine for a simulation…
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All he could hope for in order to keep himself and his family in his adopted hometown was quite the simple assignment. Just win…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the standout boxers from a state which includes Stanley Ketchel, Kid Lavigne, Ad Wolgast and James Toney…
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Several generations of Milwaukee youngsters learned to box from him, among them Spencer Tracy, later one of the greatest actors in movie history...
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Local hero – November 25th, 2017
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…
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Rocky Marciano last fought on September 21, 1955, his sixth title defense, knocking out Archie Moore, "The most unappreciated fighter in the world…”
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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…
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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…
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Gleason’s Gym is a mystical environment, pulsing with passion, where a fighter can punch himself out of his own personal darkness…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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While sitting ringside watching Andre Ward in a rematch with Sergey Kovalev, the Johnson-Burns fight came to mind…
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The death knell continues to ring like clockwork. All that seems to change are the dramatis personae and century…
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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…
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Chuck took up boxing while in prison and fought under the ring moniker Wild Man Berry, so he knew how to use his fists…
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Battling Nelson fought Riley fought four times. “That’s one fellow I never could lick,” lamented Nelson in his autobiography…
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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…
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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…
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Around the time the Tropicana and the Dunes were headlining "Jayne Mansfield and a few sequins"— boxing in Nevada has been all Las Vegas…
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Adam Pollack doubles down on the compound historical microscope that made the first book so remarkable…
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Gertrude instructed Bombo to blow his nose for the assembled press. Globs of Vaseline laced with black pepper came out…
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Between rounds Siki’s manager berated him for taking the fight to Carpentier, “What are you doing?” “He hit me!” was Siki’s answer…
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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...
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“The people are intrigued by his mammoth proportions and they flock to gaze at his huge shoulders, his mastadonic feet, his huge hands…”
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I am still reeling from the experience of watching that awful exhibition (I cannot call it a fight) between Klitschko and Fury…
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Klitschko is a fine architect, calmly deconstructing faces, subtly carving through the resolve of the man opposite…
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I’m not big on “aura” and “charisma.” I’m also not sure what “risks” and “chances” Mayweather believes he took…
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Arch faker or misunderstood genius? In Jack’s case, the answer would appear to be a tantalizing and befuddling combination of both!
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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...
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Acting Gov. Morris, Sheriff Arnold and District Attorney Zabel received hosannas from church groups for their zealous protection of public sensibilities…
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While Jack smiled at the taunts and whipped back quick and sarcastic replies, the animated Corbett steamed and fidgeted...