Black boxers have provided entertainment for decades, whether watching them live in Vegas or paying for a fight on cable TV.

They said George Godfrey was too old and too small to be a fighter. But they underestimated his strategic mind — and his ...

Jack Johnson: First black boxer to win World Heavyweight Championship. Inducted into the Hall of Fame. Sugar Ray Leonard: ...

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, a search began for a "Great White Hope" to take back the title. American ...

But Louis's cynical trainer, Chappie Blackburn, suspected that a black boxer with black managers would never get a chance to compete. When his camp approached the boxing promoter James J.