The heavyweight division is the crown jewel of boxing. Throughout its history, this division has produced the most legendary ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail National Treasure: The Mold Behind the ...

Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century — enters ...

We travel all the way back to 1907 to look at the time when legendary Canadian heavyweight Tommy Burns ... the famous bout against the legendary Jack Johnson, his biography reports that he said ...

Former WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon Briggs has named his heavyweight boxing Mount Rushmore - and while 'The Cannon' found ...

AFTER kicking off with Roberto Duran yesterday, DAN MORLEY continues his GOATs of boxing series with a quality operator who ...

Jack Johnson became the first Black boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

On this date: 1913 — Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson fights to a 10-round draw with Battling Jim Johnson in Paris. 1917 — ...

The current heavyweight champion is at his last stint as a professional ... the American fighter is heavily inspired by Hollywood superstar Dwayne Johnson. After his last win, Jon Jones revealed ...