The original Big Joe
Aug 19, 2021
2 minutes
Miles Templeton
Boxing historian
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N the period immediately before the first world war there was a group offour black American heavyweights that were of exceptional quality. I have already written about the best of them, Jack Johnson, and the contest that he had in Plymouth in 1908, just five months before he became the first black world heavyweight champion. I have also told the story of Sam
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