World heavyweight champion Jack Johnson sensationally knocked out the world middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel #OnThisDay in 1909 at the Mission Street Arena in Colma, California. The climax of the fight was crowded into 34 seconds. At the beginning of the last round there was little to judge from in preceding rounds to pick the winner. The men met in the center of the ring, clinched and wrestled to Johnson's corner. The heavyweight broke way, and, poising himself, dashed at Ketchel, who spra

🥊 John Arthur Johnson….aka JACK JOHNSON aka The Galveston Giant. Boxings first black heavyweight world champion. A pioneer of men and one of the bravest to have ever stepped foot inside the confines of that famed squared ring. He lived and fought during the appalling Jim Crow era. Johnson lived his life as he saw fit to….he didn’t bow to white america and for that I have the utmost respect for him. A man willing to die on his feet over living upon his knees. Papa Jack, L’il Artha, Galveston Gia

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