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Jack Johnson

Statistics

Real name John Arthur Johnson

Nickname(s) Galveston Giant

Rated at Heavyweight

Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Reach 74 in (188 cm)

Nationality American

Born (1878-03-31)March 31, 1878 Galveston, Texas

Died June 10, 1946(1946-06-10) (aged 68) Raleigh, North Carolina

Stance Orthodox

Boxing record

Total fights 94

Wins 54

Wins by KO 35

Losses 11

Draws 8

No contests ??

John Arthur Jack Johnson (March 31, 1878 June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, who at the height of the Jim Crow era became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908 1915). Johnson was faced with much controversy when he was charged with violating the Mann Act in 1912 even though there was an obvious lack of evidence and was largely racially based. In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns notes that for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth.

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