American novelist Jack London wrote a ... the minds of many when Joe Louis emerged as the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed the envelope of ...

George Foreman's death is still being felt in the boxing world ... and now the filmmaker behind the "Big George Foreman" ...

He broke the barriers for many black people who wanted to thrive ... acknowledged him as the greatest heavyweight boxer.

Many boxers, notably John L ... Who cared about an out-of-shape, aging black American fighter who was hanging out in Europe? Eventually, he lost the title in Havana, Cuba in April 1915 to a ...