Jack Johnson was giant among men in the jim crow era.........he had balls the size of texas........... loved the way he would flash that smile... Rip Jack.

Beautiful black fighters went through a lot but they were strong.They found ways to make things work.

Wow this was an inspiring and refreshing documentary. I'm a 22 year old boxing fan. The first fight I ever saw was Roy Jones v Bernard Hopkins. Now I'm a huge fan of the likes of Andre Ward, Rigondeaux, Terrance Crawford, Erislandy Lara, Danny Jacobs, and Tevin Farmer. But something certainly must be done to tell the stories, carry the legacies, and reintroduce the plight and personalities of all these legendary champions - not just in boxing, but across all sports. They are truly kings and pioneers in their own right, not just influencing sports, but breaking barriers and molding an environment which allows for the disenfranchised to have opportunity today. We still have ways to go in making positive change in this world, but knowing the history of our pioneers can be an igniting catalyst that will inspire us to make the changes for tomorrow. I will challenge myself to channel the resiliency of these legends and find my inner champion in all battles of my life and my community at large. Thank you for sharing. God bless.

Jack Johnson was a beautiful man! That dude was awsome!

If you can, read Unforgivable Blackness, The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson....a brilliant read, dispells the myth that the cameras were turned off at the end of the Burns fight, there is footage in existence of Burns getting knocked out......well worth a read

WALKER SMITH, JACK JOHNSON AND JOE LOUIS WERE GREAT CHAMPIONs...

that check hook at start by robinson is a thing of beauty !

Langford what a man!

The Sam Langford part made me cry

I WANNA BE JUST LIKE JACK JOHNSON WHEN I GROW UP

Sam Langford also born in Wamouth Falls Nova Scotia. George Dixion born in Halifax (africville) Nova Scotia.

Lacklustre Canadian? Holy crap! Tommy's record for consecutive KOs in title defenses still stands today. These guys know nothing or ignore the truth.

People who say it was a good informative documentary don't know their boxing well. Although it was quite good, it had some historical errors, like Joe Gans

SAM LANGFORD GREATEST EVER!!!

Imagine 15 year old Mike Tyson comming up to heavy weight in 1902😂

Black people have suffered a lot and still smile!

One of my favorite boxing documentarys thnx fo postin em

This was Amazing! Thanks for posting.

George Dixon, Halifax Nova Scotia Canada , Sam Langford Weymouth Nova Scotia Canada, George Byers , Charlottetown Prince Edward Island , Canada, George Godfrey , Charlottetown PEi Canada..these men had a tremendous impact on the United States boxing business..

another great documentary uploaded thanks again i have watch nearly all of your uploads and enjoy everyone

my favorite documentary about boxing they introduce all my favorite fighters threw out history.

What a hell of a documentary this is great

thanks a lot man, really great docu.

Brilliant Doc.. narration, footage, history & continuity

Fantastic documentary I've watched it first time in 2001🎯🎯🎯🎯I know every single fighter mentioned in here😎✊🔥💥💣💯💯💯💯 and watched it a thousand time's and never get sick of it📹🎥📷

I love this channel. You got a new subscriber.

joe gans and panama joe gans are 2 different people. Error by espn

Excellent documentary. I understand keeping it short meant you had to skip certain things. Great piece.

Peter Jackson is real champ

Joe Johnson had to run to get a chance to fight for the title for eight years! What a huge will power he had. And him standing against all the haitred that was sent towards him just because he was black

Peter Jackson worked at Killara Greengate Hotel & the fruit orchards nearby , in Sydney ,Australia and had his first pro fights in Bert Oldfield Park in Killara. You can visit these places today in 2019.

ive seen most of ur uploads..ty

That Jack Johnson !!!

Pure Perfection!

Excellent documentary in spite of the errors eg panama joe gans . Very informative and the fight clips of excellent quality .

This is a great documentary i'm happy I subbed

Very will written document. It way also be the easiest way to help people understand the many police beating/killing others.

one word to describe this video... awesome!

Great Documentary

i like Archie Moore's hat

It also says that John Henry Lewis was his first defence. It wasn't. It was Tommy Farr. Everybody knows that. I had high hopes for this documentary, but it has been let down by conjecture made by people who can't seem to get basic facts right.

Great Documentary

Cheers!

This is one of my favorite documentaries, very informative

The biggest guys in my high school were always from Ghana. I live in London.

I”m sure it’s been pointed out that around 10:00 Gans is referred to as Panama Joe Gans, which was a different boxer.

I have a copy of a bio of Sam Langford. It was written by his granddaughter!

Wonderful.

"lackluster" - Tommy Burns? He gets "a couple of fights". This is clearly the opinion of Boxing idiots. Tommy Burns was the shortest Heavyweight in history at 5'8 and succesfully defended his title 11 times in 2 years, which was more than Jefferies did in his 6 years, or Johnson did in his 7 year reign. He was not by any means "lackluster"!!

DAM I MISS ESPN CLASSICS

Does anybody know who that person is standing beside Peter Jackson's grave?? It looks like Jim Corbett or Gene Tunney.

check sam langfords wikipedia document ..... it does say he was heavyweight champion.... and check his eight ... burns is not the shortest ..

Great history here!

U forgot murders row but this was still great👍👍

I like Gerald Early. Lately.

You had an incoming call Bro

True

Fucking love boxing 🥊

This is MINT✊🏾

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Jack Johnson would not risk his title against other black fighters there by handing the title back to less worthy white fighters.

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18:10 just so I remember

Joe Gans put defense on the map.

Well Jack Johnson when he was heavyweight champion back in the early nineteen hundreds even he said he wouldn't fight the African American boxers in that time the reason he said for that because a lot of those spiders Jack Johnson fought 20 30 40 times so they were way more of a threat by taking that championship belt from him rather than like a Tommy Burns there's was no threat with Tommy Burns...

Peter Jackson👍

source please?

blacks were ok by the American public and its boxing fraternity in the lower weight classes but the colour bar was mostly held up in the HW DIVISION then JACK JOHNSON chased TOMMY BURNS all over the world to finally get a shot at BURNS HW TITLE in Australia in 1908 / 12 / 26 to 1915 / 04 / 05 so he held the HW title for 6yrs 8 months and even JACKSON JOHNSON a black fighter himself held onto the COLOUR BAR Refusing to fight black fighters in a title defence as the HW champion he flaunted and broke the whole rules regarding white America at the time a black HW CHAMPION OF THE WORLD AT THE TIME WAS A NO NO But messing with white women was a no no off the scale he JOHNSON broke every rule in the book but didnt care he lived his life as he chose to and revaled in it he traveled with white women even prostitutes and crossed county lines and the charge was transporting women across state lines with them so the American establishmene went after him 10 fold and they basically chased him out of the country and when he came back he had to fight WILLARD and lost Now as we know the HW champion is meant to mean you are the baddest man on the planet ant the HW title is held in total esteem as JACK JOHNSON was a nightmare to the AMERICAN PUBLIC & THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT It took another 22 yrs for JOE LOIUS to get a HW title shot in 1937 against JIM BRADDOCK even then because JOHNSON had let a terrible black legacy or a black HW JOE LOIUS was issued with the ultimate set of rules to paint a good image to the AMERICAN establishment and white America NO WHITE WOMEN AS IN BEING PHOTOGRAPHED WITH THEM NO EMOTIONS AFTER FIGHTS WINS OR STOPPAGGES LOIUS HAD A MULTIPLE OR NAMES WHICH BASICALLY WERE DETRIMENTAL REGARDING HIS COLOUR THE NAMES WERE THE 1 THE BLACK MENACE 2 THE DARK DESTROYER 3 THE GOLDEN PUMA 4 THE BROWN BOMBER WHICH STUCK WITH LOUIS HIS WHOLE BOXING CAREER AND IN LIFE Even then JOE LOIUS may subconsiously held up the colour bar as in reaity the was no money in fighting black fighters in 25 successful defence JOE LOIUS only fought to black fighters JOHN LEWIS & JERSEY JOE WALCOT but to be fair back in the day there wasnt big money to be earnt with 2 black fighters fighting each other ? To be totally honest because of JACK JOHNOSON unwittingly JOE LOIUS got shafted at the negotionating table to get a title shot at BRADDOCK BRADDOCK got $300,000 purse and 10 % of the promoters net profits from promoting loius over the next 10 yrs JOE LOUIS MADE 25 SUCCESSUL DEFENCES OVER NEARLY 12 YRS his promoter was a white man called MIKE JACOBS Just as an example a boxing promoter can take a maximum of 33.3 % of a fighters purse now that was only JOE LOIUS So from JOE LOIUS 1ST DENFENCE TO HIS Thommy Far the 10 yrs were up against Jersey Joe Walcot that was 23 successful defences JOE LOIUS netted well i was going thru every JOE LOIUS FIGHT AND RING EARNING AS CHAMPION AND I GOT PISSED OFF HA HA So i googled how much did JOE LOIUS MAKE it was so much easier it was $48 million so say $44 million as world champion for 10 yrs so his promoter would have got 33.3 % of that so say $14 million 652 thousand and ooo BRADDOCK WOULD HAVE POCKETED ABOUT $1,465,200 IN 1O YRS from MIKE JACOBS SITTING ON HIS ARSE LOL But as JOE LOIUS PLAYED THE RIGHT GAME HE PAVED THE WAY fFOR FUTURE BLACK HW CHAMPIONS OF ABOUT 80 WORLD HW CHAMPIONS ACROSS THE BOARD THERE HAVE BEEN SINCE JOE LOIUS 60 BLACK HW CHAMPIONS WITH ABOUT 16 BLACK LINEAR WORLD CHAMPIONS AND 4 WHITE LINEAR CHAMPIONS so things have progressed an awful lot because of JOE LOUIS

Wasn't no car Jack Johnson was driving in 1909 was going 90-100 mph, kkackers will tell a damn lie, car probably went 70 mph at best.

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4:21 assignment

The powers that be are evil! They couldn't stop human spirit.

Respect to jack johnson

2:40 define "freedom"-

In this documentary, they keep mention so and so is the greatest fighter that ever lived, and then (again) so and so is the greatest fighter, so who in the hell is or was the greatest fighter ever, I wish that they make up their mind

thank god......every one can fight for titles today...no excuses etc. real world champs.....not just americans. some of the best are from england , ukerane ....its a level playing feild now....white black red or yellow

🤩💬> WoW 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👀❗ G-G.

I'm shocked these guys didn't claim that Joe Louis took a dive against Schmeling.

not everyone ...

Joe Gans was not Panama Joe Gans!

Tom, Not sam..........

Really tho "Shadow Boxing"

you mean the true American Indian fighter

John L who.he was afraid of that bad black man.

Currently there are no American heavyweight champions. But when you think about it and forget about weak chinned Tommy 'the Duke' Morrison, who briefly held one of those alphabet titles. There hasn't been a real white American World Heavyweight Champion since Rocky Marciano retired in 1956.

shadow boxing...

Joe Louis' betrayal of Marshal Miles ,and his surrender of 10% of all his future purses to Bradock to get the fight with Bradock. LOUIS didn't deserve the match because he had just been knocked out by Max Schmelling,who should have gotten the fight. So,the country used Louis.Apparantly Louis' sense of principle ment nothing.And,Louis had the nerve to denigrate Ali who was , at least arguably , a better fighter and without question a far better man.

Is like baseball ⚾️, the world champions, there’s no such thing, they have never played with no one around the world, they always play against the US states, that be NY Yankees against the LA Dodgers, and whoever wins are consider the world’s champions, but how can that be??? They’ve never played like for instance the NY Yankees against Italy 🇮🇹, Germany 🇩🇪 etc etc, so they cannot be considered the world’s champion, now, boxing 🥊 is a totally different story, they fight with whoever is considered the best challenger around the world, so I wish that they stop saying that baseball ⚾️ are the world champions

Kinda crazy cuz they doin every black fighter like that nowadays again sad 🤦🏽‍♂️

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alot of those matches were staged...sad

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Floyd mayweather jr is the greatest of all time. NOT SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

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Panama Joe Gans is not the great Joe Gans. These guys know nothing.

I am disappointed to not hear anything about Muhammad Ali (the greatest).