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Jack Johnson v Stanley Ketchel
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The Greatest Boxing Fights of All Time - Jack Johnson vs Stanley Ketchel in 1909 • The match with Ketchel was originally thought to have been an exhibition, and in fact it was fought by both men that way, until the 12th round, when Ketchel threw a right to Johnson's head, knocking him down. Quickly regaining his feet, and very annoyed, Johnson immediately dashed straight at Ketchell and threw a single punch, an uppercut, a punch for which he was famous, to Ketchel's jaw, knocking him out. The punch knocked out Ketchell's front teeth; Johnson can be seen on film removing them from his glove, where they had been embedded. • - - - - • John Arthur 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). Widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers of all time, his 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the fight of the century . According to filmmaker Ken Burns, for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth . Transcending boxing, he became part of the culture and history of racism in the United States. • In 1912, Johnson opened a successful and luxurious black and tan (desegregated) restaurant and nightclub, which in part was run by his wife, a white woman. Major newspapers of the time soon claimed that Johnson was attacked by the government only after he became famous as a black man married to a white woman, and was linked to other white women. Johnson was arrested on charges of violating the Mann Act—forbidding one to transport a woman across state lines for immoral purposes —a racially motivated charge that embroiled him in controversy for his relationships, including marriages, with white women. Sentenced to a year in prison, Johnson fled the country and fought boxing matches abroad for seven years until 1920 when he served his sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. • Johnson continued taking paying fights for many years, and operated several other businesses, including lucrative endorsement deals. He died in a car crash on June 10, 1946, at the age of 68. • #JackJohnson #boxing #GreatestFights
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