Bob Fitzsimmons
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Robert James Fitzsimmons was a Cornish-New Zealand professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. He achieved fame for beating "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, and he is in The Gu
Fitzsimmons in 1891
The birthplace of Bob Fitzsimmons in Helston, Cornwall
Fitzsimmons knocks down Dempsey in New Orleans, 1891.
March 1897 Fitzsimmons–Corbett boxing match
Jack Johnson
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John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion. His 1910 fight against Jam
Bob Fitzsimmons
…afterward, he went back to the Heavyweights, where he kept fighting until 1914, with mixed results. In 1907 at age 44, Fitzsimmons fought a much younger Jack Johnson, during the time period in which reigning champion James J. Jeffries refused to fight Johnson due to his race. The bout between Johnson and Fitzsimmons…
Johnson in 1915
Johnson standing behind Choynski in Chicago in 1909
Jack Johnson, Sydney, c. 1908
Johnson in 1908 (photograph by Otto Sarony)