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Entries tagged with "Tommy+Burns":

• Jack Johnson: Do the Right Thing – May 25th, 2011

  Senator McCain said the resolution was "to send a clear message to rectify this unacceptable historical injustice…”
  
  

• Joe Gans: The Timeless Master – September 4th, 2011

  The Old Master was still there, still on top of the world, despite all the efforts of others to bust him down and cut him out of the picture...
  
  

• Canadian Boxing—What Resurgence? – January 27th, 2012

  Way up in the rafters, you can hear conversations about Durelle, Chuvalo, the Hiltons, Gatti, Pep, Gray, Melo, and so many others…
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• Pocket Battleship: Sam Langford – February 16th, 2012

  Boxing can be a cruelly deceptive sport. It can paint pretty pictures and then deface them at the drop of a hat...